ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,719, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack, battery system and precharge method" was invented by Mi-So Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a battery cell, a main relay provided on a charging and discharging path of the battery cell, a precharge relay, a precharge resistor, the precharge relay and the precharge resistor being connected in parallel to the main relay on the charging and discharging path, a connector connected to a load including a capacitor; a communication part receiving a capacitance of the capacitor from the load th...