ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,408, issued on March 18, was assigned to SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery malfunction detection by correlating vibrations response spectrums" was invented by Xiaoyu Li (Shenzhen, China), Shaohong Lin (Shenzhen, China), Jindong Tian (Shenzhen, China) and Yong Tian (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery malfunction detection method includes: applying a preset number of vibration signals with different frequencies to a battery to be detected through a vibration generation device; collecting a response signal of the battery to be detected through a response collection device, where the response signal i...