US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 23 for "Sign detection system, sign detection method, and sign detection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,477, issued on June 23, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sign detection system, sign detection method, and sign detection program" was invented by Masaaki Kuranuki (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaaki Takegata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a sign detection system, a battery data acquisition unit acquires battery data including current data obtained by periodically measuring a current flowing through a battery pack. When the current data in a period of charging the battery pack by a charger include a section temporarily having a current value of zero, a determination unit det...