ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,998, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Full charge capacity estimation device and method" was invented by Yuichi Ota (Mitaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This device estimates the full charge capacity of a redundant system battery that supplies electric power to a redundant vehicle load, and includes an acquisition unit that acquires battery voltage, a determination unit that determines whether the polarization of the battery has been resolved after the ignition switch of the vehicle is turned off, a measurement unit that measures, when it is determined that the polarization has been re...