US Patent Issued to NIO on June 10 for "Method and system for monitoring battery short circuit and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,477, issued on June 10, was assigned to NIO Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and system for monitoring battery short circuit and apparatus" was invented by Weichao Tian (Shanghai), Lei Ye (Shanghai), Zerun Zhou (Shanghai), Hang Yin (Shanghai), Xiang Chen (Shanghai) and Xinchun Lv (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes: receiving collected electrical signal information of all cells in each traction battery; performing self-discharge observation and calculating a self-discharge rate based on a cell voltage in electrical signal information of each cell after depolarization is completed, to determine whether there is an...