ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,860, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery characteristic estimation device, battery characteristic estimation method, and storage medium" was invented by Takuma Kawahara (Wako, Japan) and Tatsuki Yamaguchi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery characteristic estimation device including a storage medium that stores computer-readable instructions, and a processor coupled to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to: acquire time-series data of at least a voltage and current of a secondary battery having a positive electrode containing a positiv...