ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,409, issued on May 26, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Abnormality detection method, abnormality detection device, energy storage apparatus, and computer program" was invented by Ryoichi Okuyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuya Okabe (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormality detection method detects abnormality of an assembled battery including energy storage devices by an abnormality detection device. Each energy storage device contains, as a positive active material, lithium iron phosphate and lithium transition metal oxide that allows insertion and extraction reaction of a lithium ion in a po...