US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Oct. 20 for "Battery management method, vehicle employing the method, and battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,000, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management method, vehicle employing the method, and battery" was invented by Joon Keun Yoon (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Seung Beom Yoon (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management method includes obtaining a voltage-capacity profile in response to charging or discharging of a battery and diagnosing the state of the battery using an nth-order differential value (n being a natural number of 1 or greater) at at least one predetermined characteristic point obtained from an nth-orde...