ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,687, issued on May 27, was assigned to Qnovo Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Method of detecting metal plating in intercalation cells" was invented by On K. Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Dania Ghantous (Walnut Creek, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, non-invasive methods are described in which combinations of certain battery parameter values are used to identify whether metal plating (e.g., lithium plating) has occurred during charging of a battery. In response to the detection of metal plating and/or conditions associated with metal plating, one or more characteristics of a charge process may be adjusted or adapted to ma...