ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,789, issued on April 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for inspecting battery" was invented by Sung Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery inspection method comprises charging a battery to a fully charged state, determining, when the charging is finished while the battery is in a fully charged state, deviation of an open circuit voltage (OCV) value of each of a plurality of cells included in the battery at a first time point after a preset first reference time has elapsed from a time point of finishing the charging w...