ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,320, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management apparatus and method" was invented by Bo Mi Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yo Hwan Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Won Tae Joe (Daejeon, South Korea) and Bom Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a battery management apparatus including a measuring unit measuring a current and a voltage of battery cells, an analyzing unit classifying the battery cells into a plurality of classes based on a feature obtained from the current and the voltage of the battery cells and a degradation behavior of each of the ...