ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,215, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery apparatus and method for estimating battery state" was invented by Yong Chul Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Cheoltaek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Incheol Yeom (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery apparatus receives a measured current of a battery and estimates a surface SOC representing a potential at an electrode surface of the battery based on a plurality of parameters. The plurality of parameters includes a first parameter determined based on the measured current and a second parameter determined based on an SO...