ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,438, issued on June 23, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Charging duration determining method, BMS, battery, and electrical device" was invented by Haijiang Wang (Ningde City, China), Shuting Sun (Ningde City, China) and Shuai Huang (Ningde City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a charging duration determining method, a BMS, a battery, and an electrical device. The method includes: determining a charge temperature of a battery; estimating, in a case that the charge temperature exceeds a first specified range, a first duration to be taken to adjust the charge...