ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,310, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery management apparatus and method" was invented by Yoon-Jung Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and A-Ming Cha (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management apparatus and method capable of preventing lithium plating from occurring in a battery cell by determining an optimal upper limit C-rate corresponding to the battery cell. In particular, since the charging and discharging of the battery cell may be controlled according to the determined upper limit C-rate, it is possible to prevent side reactions from occurring in the ...