US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 24 for "Deterioration diagnosis apparatus of assembled battery and deterioration diagnosis method of assembled battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,326, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Deterioration diagnosis apparatus of assembled battery and deterioration diagnosis method of assembled battery" was invented by Kentaro Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Koji Yamada (Kusatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deterioration diagnosis apparatus of an assembled battery includes at least one processor. The processor executes discharging of each of a plurality of cells included in an assembled battery mounted on a vehicle while measuring a voltage of each of the cells, and estimates a deterioration degree of the assembled battery using voltage dat...