US Patent Issued to SK On on March 25 for "Battery management system and battery management method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,440, issued on March 25, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management system and battery management method thereof" was invented by Kyung Chul Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Min Seo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Byung Eun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a battery management system and method for selecting at least one battery cell of a high-risk group and calculating a maximum current limit value for stably using a battery pack using the selected at least one battery cell of the high-risk group. According to the present invention, the battery cells of high-risk group ma...