US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on May 6 for "Method for determining the ageing of an individual battery cell as well as a method for controlling a battery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,482, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining the ageing of an individual battery cell as well as a method for controlling a battery" was invented by Friedrich Emanuel Hust (Esslingen, Germany) and Heiko Witzenhausen (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining ageing of an individual battery cell of a lithium-ion battery. The battery cell is actively charged or discharged with a power pulse, or such a power pulse charging or discharging is detected during operation of the battery, where an occurring current pulse and a voltage response of the...