ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,546, issued on June 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Power storage system" was invented by Hiroto Okabe (Tokyo), Yuya Yamashita (Tokyo) and Tetsuhiro Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry functionally includes: an internal resistance calculation unit; a reference value obtaining unit configured to obtain a reference value for internal resistance; a correction coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate a correction coefficient indicating how great difference between the internal resistance and the reference value is: a correction value calculation unit configured to calculate ...