ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,017, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device with battery short circuit detection" was invented by Sagar Bharathraj (Bengaluru, India) and Shashishekara Parampalli Adiga (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and device with battery short circuit detection. A method of detecting a short circuit in a battery includes: triggering a rest phase of the battery, determining a first time constant related to a rest voltage of the battery when the battery may be in the rest phase, estimating a first short-resistance value by comparing the fir...