ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,438, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for diagnosing battery" was invented by Young Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing a battery may include a voltage measurement unit that measures a voltage of a battery cell, a fitting equation calculation unit that calculates a fitting equation for the voltage of the battery cell, and a diagnostic unit that diagnoses whether or not the battery cell is abnormal based on the fitting equation for the voltage of the battery cell."
The patent was filed on Dec. 9, 2020, under Ap...