ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,680, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Battery diagnosis apparatus" was invented by Jun Kikuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery diagnosis apparatus is configured to perform a diagnosis process that determines whether a battery mounted on an electric vehicle is a normal product. The battery diagnosis apparatus includes a battery control unit. The battery control unit is configured to diagnose that the battery is not the normal product when one of the following conditions is satisfied: a voltage of the battery decreases to a lower limit voltage before a predetermined time elapses from a start o...