ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,641, issued on May 5, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management apparatus and method" was invented by Du-Seong Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Wook Koh (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Hyung Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang-Hoon Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong-Mi Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yoon-Jung Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management apparatus includes: a measuring unit to measure voltage and capacity of a battery cell; a profile generating unit to generate a battery profile representing a correspondence between the voltage and the capacity measured...