ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,216, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery apparatus and method for estimating resistance state" was invented by Seongjun Yun (Daejeon, South Korea), Taekyu Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Cheoltaek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a battery apparatus estimates an internal resistance of a battery at a reference temperature based on a measured voltage of the battery, a measured current of the battery, an open circuit voltage of the battery, and a measured temperature of the battery, and estimates a resistance state of the battery based on the es...