US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus for diagnosing abnormality of a battery cell group and method for the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,833, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for diagnosing abnormality of a battery cell group and method for the same" was invented by Yo Han Baek (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing abnormality of a battery cell group and a method for the same are provided. The apparatus includes a voltage sensor to measure a voltage value with respect to each battery cell group including a plurality of battery cells connected to each other in parallel, and a controller to determine an accumulated voltage value for an...