US Patent Issued to Samsung SDI on July 28 for "Method for derating battery charging power and battery pack to which the method is applied" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,786, issued on July 28, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method for derating battery charging power and battery pack to which the method is applied" was invented by Jiwon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Joon-Woo Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for derating a charge power of a battery, includes: obtaining altitude data of a vehicle; obtaining descent speed data of the vehicle; calculating, based on the altitude data and the descent speed data, a prediction value of an increase in a charging current of the battery equipped in the vehicle due to regenerative braking; a...