US Patent Issued to SK On on March 24 for "Apparatus and method for detecting defective battery cell" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,973, issued on March 24, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for detecting defective battery cell" was invented by Ji Won Na (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Ram Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Won Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hee Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Yeon Hwa Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki Joo Eom (Daejeon, South Korea), Myung Ro Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Yeong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyun Joong Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for detecting a defective battery cell is proposed. The proposed apparatus includes a charger for su...