ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,287, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Battery management system and method of operating the same" was invented by Minsu Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system includes: a contactor connected to a battery; a battery manager configured to output a control signal for controlling a state of the contactor to the contactor; a signal processor configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal generated during switching of the state of the contactor and to generate, based on the RF signal, a plurality of signal strength values respectively cor...