ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,479, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery SOC estimating apparatus and method" was invented by Seung-Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun-Chul Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Keun Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), An-Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chae-Bin Shin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery state of charge estimating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a charging and discharging unit for receiving a control signal including a C-rate and for charging and discharging a battery at the C-rate included in the control ...