ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,395, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for diagnosing state of battery" was invented by Kyung-Hwa Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yoon-Jung Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing a state of a battery includes a voltage measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of a battery and measure a target voltage for the battery when the measured voltage reaches a preset first reference voltage, a resistance measuring unit configured to measure a target resistance of the battery when the measured voltage reaches a preset secon...