ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,702, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Estimation device and estimation method" was invented by Yosuke Okabe (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigeki Yamate (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This estimation device is provided with: an acquiring unit which acquires a measurement result from a temperature sensor for measuring temperature at a specific location to which heat generated by an electrical storage device is transmitted; and an observer which, in accordance with input of the measurement result, estimates the temperature at a location where the temperature sensor has not performed mea...