ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,326, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for detecting lithium plating, and method and apparatus for obtaining polarization proportion" was invented by Shifei Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Bingxiao Liu (Shanghai) and Zhiwei Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and apparatuses for detecting lithium plating and obtaining a polarization proportion are provided. One example method includes obtaining an open-circuit voltage of a rechargeable battery and a negative electrode open-circuit voltage of the rechargeable battery based on a...