ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,014, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery control device, battery system, power supply system, and battery control method" was invented by Han-Sol Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of switching circuits connected in series to a plurality of battery packs; a plurality of sensing circuits to generate a sensing signal indicating a voltage and a current of each battery pack; and a control circuit to determine the voltage, a state of health (SOH) and a state of charge (SOC) of eac...