US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on April 14 for "Battery pack and assessment method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,792, issued on April 14, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Battery pack and assessment method" was invented by Zyun Siroma (Ikeda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This battery pack comprises: an electric circuit element part which is for use in assessment of a plurality of secondary batteries and which is disposed so as to be connectable to the plurality of secondary batteries; and a switching part connected to the electric circuit element part and to the plurality of secondary batteries and configured so that the impedance characteristics of the entirety of the battery p...