ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,323, issued on April 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Charging station, battery management system, and charging method that forgo charging when a degree of deterioration is advanced" was invented by Yuji Unagami (Osaka, Japan), Toshihiro Inokuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Motoji Ohmori (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging station charges an electric energy storage device, and includes: a battery authenticator that performs mutual authentication with the electric energy storage device connected for charging; a communicator that obtains, from the electric energy ...