ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,569, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and systems for safety assessment of a battery" was invented by Sagar Bharathraj (Bangalore, India) and Shashishekara Parampalli Adiga (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for determining safety of a battery are disclosed, where the method includes identifying a charge state or a discharge state of the battery, activating pulse probe currents at different depths of charge or discharge (charge/discharge) of the battery, in response to identifying the charge or discharge state of the battery, and d...