US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on June 16 for "Charge protocol inspection apparatus and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,405, issued on June 16, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Charge protocol inspection apparatus and operating method thereof" was invented by Yeo Kyung Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong In Yu (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong Jun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge protocol inspection apparatus including an information obtaining unit is configured to obtain information about a charge protocol of a battery cell, an open circuit voltage (OCV) corresponding to a state of charge (SoC) of the battery cell, and a reference internal resistance of the battery cell, calculate an interna...