US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Aug. 18 for "Cell balancing method and cell balancing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,187, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell balancing method and cell balancing system" was invented by Kenta Wakabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell balancing method includes: setting predicted standing time, based on a statistic value of standing time collected over a predetermined period of time; estimating a capacity retention rate of each of cells of a lithium-ion battery at a next start-up after a lapse of the predicted standing time; on the condition that a difference in the estimated capacity retention rate between a maximum value and a minimum value becomes greater than a predetermine...