ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,127, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for estimating battery cell surface temperature" was invented by Ho Chol Nam (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seog Jin Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a battery cell surface temperature estimation system and method capable of minimizing a temperature measurement delay through a software algorithm method that estimates the actual cell surface temperature by reflecting the gradient of the measured temperature change of the battery cell."

The patent was filed on June 11, 2021, und...