ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,582, issued on July 21, was assigned to GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Correction method for estimated state-of-charge value of energy storage device, management apparatus for energy storage device, and energy storage apparatus" was invented by Satoru Narimoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeyuki Shiraishi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A correction method for an estimated state-of-charge (SOC) value of a battery cell 12 estimated by a current integration method, the method including: a charge step of a battery cell 12; a determination step of determining a correction value of the estimated value based on an amount...