US Patent Issued to Samsung SDI on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for estimating charging time of battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,403, issued on March 17, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for estimating charging time of battery" was invented by Youngwoo Shim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Youngshin Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a charging time of a battery, includes: estimating an SOC of the battery by measuring at least one parameter of the battery; estimating an internal resistance of the battery based on the at least one parameter of the battery, the SOC of the battery, and SOC-OCV data; estimating a time length of a constant current (CC) charging section b...