US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BATTERY on Sept. 16 for "Method for determining battery state and battery state determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,677, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA BATTERY Co. LTD. (Kosai, Japan).

"Method for determining battery state and battery state determination device" was invented by Daisuke Shinohara (Toyohashi, Japan) and Daisuke Koba (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a negative electrode capacity of a rechargeable battery is performed by a measurement device that includes a voltage detector that detects a voltage value of the rechargeable battery, a current detector that detects a current value of the rechargeable battery, and a state of charge detector that detects a state of charge of the recharg...