ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,370, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Temperature estimation device, temperature estimation method, program, and storage medium" was invented by Yuichi Futamura (Wako, Japan), Takahito Fujita (Wako, Japan), Takashi Iwasa (Wako, Japan), Takao Sato (Wako, Japan) and Shinya Agatsuma (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature of a power device to which a power storage device is attached is estimated on the basis of a temperature detected by a temperature detector provided in a power storage device detachably held in the power device."

The patent was filed on Nov. 19, 2021, under Applicat...