ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,086, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery abnormality detection system, battery abnormality detection method, and battery abnormality detection program" was invented by Shinya Nishikawa (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Itakura (Nara, Japan), Mutsuhiko Takeda (Kyoto, Japan) and Takashi Iida (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery abnormality detection system includes the following constituents. A battery data acquisition unit acquires voltages of one of a plurality of cells and a plurality of parallel cell blocks in a battery pack and temperatures at a plu...