ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,865, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Diagnostic method" was invented by Meiko Ueyama (Tokyo), Hiroshi Abe (Tokyo) and Shun Kimijima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic method to be implemented by a computer includes conducting a deterioration diagnosis of a dummy battery through which a mirror current based on a current flowing through a battery used as a power source for a drive motor flows; and, in a case where it is determined in the deterioration diagnosis that the dummy battery is deteriorated, conducting a reversible deterioration diagnosis of the dummy battery based on a usage state of ...