ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,394, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management apparatus and method" was invented by Hu-Jun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Hyun Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae-Dong Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang-Hoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed is a battery management apparatus that can include a battery information measuring unit connected to a battery and configured to measure a voltage of the battery; and a control unit configured to receive from an outside, location information about a location where the battery is stored, receive battery...