ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,416, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery protection circuit and protection method thereof" was invented by Ji Uk Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a battery protection circuit and a method for protecting the battery protection circuit in which instead of connecting the charge/discharge FET on the current path between the battery and the external system, when an abnormal condition occurs in the battery, the 0V voltage of the battery cell is transmitted to the external system through the disconnection of the voltage sensing li...