US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG SDI on Dec. 9 for "Abnormal cell detection method, abnormal cell detection device, and battery pack" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,079, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Abnormal cell detection method, abnormal cell detection device, and battery pack" was invented by Duckgu Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormal cell detection method of a battery pack including a plurality of cells, the method including obtaining a first plurality of discharge rates for each cell during a first rest period in a cell balancing state, prohibiting a cell balancing of the plurality of cells if a first cell having a first discharge rate greater than or equal to a first threshold value is detected, obtainin...