ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,910, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charging/discharging control device and charging/discharging control method" was invented by Takahito Ida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a charging/discharging control device which, for an assembled battery including a plurality of storage batteries connected in series, detects capacity variation among the storage batteries and controls charging/discharging of the assembled battery. The charging/discharging control device includes a charging/discharging controller which calculates an electric-charge-quantity corresponding value which is a v...