ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,165, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for measuring insulation resistance" was invented by Woo Jung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus capable of measuring an insulation resistance of a battery, and according to the apparatus capable of measuring the insulation resistance of the present invention. A voltage measurement unit may measure a voltage with respect to a potential of a negative terminal of a battery rather than the ground, and thus parameters requiring a high precision may be measured using one device, there...