ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,292, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for calculating cell state, and storage medium" was invented by Linwang Deng (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoqian Li (Shenzhen, China), Tianyu Feng (Shenzhen, China) and Sijia Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating a cell state includes: acquiring a first knee-point voltage threshold of a cell, a first knee-point electricity corresponding to the first knee-point voltage threshold, a second knee-point voltage threshold of the cell and a second knee-point electricity corresponding to the second knee-point voltage thr...