ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,482, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TeraWatt Technology K.K. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Deterioration state estimation device, deterioration state estimation method, program, and power supply device for anode-free lithium battery equipped with same" was invented by Juichi Arai (Yokohama, Japan) and Ken Ogata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to accurately estimate the state of deterioration and service life of a secondary battery having a negative electrode free of a negative electrode active material using a simple configuration. One aspect of the present invention is a state-of-de...