ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,853, issued on April 7, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Development support apparatus, development support method, and state detection method" was invented by Katsuyuki Sato (Kyoto, Japan) and Muhammad Syahid Fitri Bin Azahar (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A development support apparatus includes: an estimation unit that estimates behavior of an energy storage device by using an equivalent circuit model reflecting a state of charge (SOC)-operating voltage characteristic in a high change-amount region where an amount of change in an operating voltage with respect to an amount of change in the...