US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 16 for "Battery real-time internal short circuit detection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,400, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Battery real-time internal short circuit detection" was invented by Lijun Gao (Renton, Wash.), Shengyi Liu (Seattle) and Glen M. Brown (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a battery and a processor configured to continuously record a voltage and current as a function of time. A time window may be determined based on the current as a function of time. During the time window, an accumulated electric charge may be substantially zero and an accumulated absolute value of the electric charge may substantially equal a stored comparis...