ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,179, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery diagnosing apparatus and method" was invented by Bum-Hee Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Su-Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Han-Sol Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang-Ki Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for diagnosing a battery bank having a failure in a connection state, including a state measuring unit configured to measure a state of each battery bank of a battery pack during a charging process and a discharging process of the battery pack; and a control unit configured to extract at least o...