ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,196, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery self-discharge current measurement apparatus and operating method thereof" was invented by Jae Dong Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery life prediction apparatus according to an embodiment disclosed herein includes a processor and memory having programmed thereon instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause the processor to obtain information about a charge end voltage of a battery corresponding to a charge protocol and predict a life of the battery corresponding to the charge protocol based on the...