US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 18 for "Battery abnormality detection device, battery abnormality detection method, and recording medium recorded with battery abnormality detection program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,984, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery abnormality detection device, battery abnormality detection method, and recording medium recorded with battery abnormality detection program" was invented by Kosuke Nishioka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery abnormality detection device that: for an equalization circuit including a discharge circuit provided with a switch that, in a case of being switched ON, causes a battery cell to discharge, and including a detector connected to the battery cell in parallel to the discharge circuit so as to detect a voltage of the battery ce...