ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,012, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management system and a battery management method with a plurality of constant current charging stages for a battery" was invented by Gi-Min Nam (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeong-Seok Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae-Hyun Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Won-Tae Joe (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system and a battery management method. The battery management system includes a sensing unit to generate a sensing signal indicating a voltage and a current of a battery, a memory unit to store a reference ch...