ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,166, issued on May 12, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Charge/discharge control system and charge/discharge control method" was invented by Hideki Sakai (Saitama, Japan), Atsushi Sakurai (Saitama, Japan), Tatsuya Hattori (Saitama, Japan) and Yuji Isogai (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to provide a charge/discharge control system and a charge/discharge control method capable of performing, in real time, highly accurate analysis of an internal state of a battery that is actually operating in a vehicle, and capable of performing control on the battery with a high accuracy based on the...