US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS on March 24 for "Electrical methods for structural defect detection in battery cells" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,970, issued on March 24, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Electrical methods for structural defect detection in battery cells" was invented by Brian Clifford MacCleery (Austin, Texas) and Martin Weiss (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for characterizing a defect of a device-under-test (DUT). A first measurement is performed of a first quantity on the DUT prior to performing a first operation on the DUT, producing a first result. The first operation is performed on the DUT, and subsequently a second measurement of the first quantity is performed on the DUT, produci...