ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,667, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery pack internal short circuit detection method and related apparatus, and electric vehicle" was invented by Rui Yang (Shanghai), Wei Cai (Shenzhen, China) and Lulu Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack internal short circuit detection method applicable to an electric vehicle includes checking a voltage change of a target battery based on voltages of a reference battery in two charging processes, and determining whether the target battery has an internal short circuit based on the voltage chang...