ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,531, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) and STODIA GMBH (Gifhorn, Germany).
"Method for determining a state of a cell of a battery" was invented by Andre Seidel (Gifhorn, Germany), Jan-Michael Kohler (Braunschweig, Germany), Stephan Rudolph (Bahrdorf, Germany) and Ilmir Baianov (Schoppenstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a respective state of each of a plurality of cells of a battery, comprising at least the following steps: a) carrying out a charging operation or a discharging operation on the cells; b) determining a discharge voltage of each of the cells and a c...