ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,751, issued on July 28, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimating unit for gas inside secondary battery and vehicle" was invented by Takahiro Ueki (Tokyo) and Kotaro Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas estimating unit configured to estimate an amount and a composition of a gas generated inside a secondary battery includes at least one processor and at least one memory electrically coupled to each other. The at least one processor is configured to detect a presence or absence of a gas generating period. The gas generating period is a period for which the gas is generated inside the secondary battery while the ...