ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,572, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery diagnosing apparatus and method" was invented by Yang-Soo An (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong-Chul Sung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery diagnosing apparatus includes a voltage measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of each of a plurality of battery cells included in a battery module at every voltage measurement cycled and a control unit configured to obtain a voltage value for the plurality of battery cells from the voltage measuring unit at every voltage measurement cycle, calculate a voltage change ...