ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,957, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery management apparatus and method" was invented by Jin Woo Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Geun Wook Lim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure a link voltage of each of a plurality of battery packs and a determining unit configured to control a switching circuit provided in each of the plurality of battery packs and determine a connection state of the plurality of battery packs based on a link voltage of the plurality of battery packs corresponding ...