ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,956, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for estimating aging of satellite battery" was invented by Seok-Teak Yun (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating an aging amount of a battery mounted on a satellite includes receiving battery voltage and current data generated by detecting a voltage and current of the battery in a preset first sensing period during a precise sensing period, determining a mission start time point based on the battery current data, obtaining a first battery voltage value of a first time point base...