US Patent Issued to Toyota Systems on July 14 for "Secondary battery degradation determination apparatus and secondary battery degradation determination method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,104, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toyota Systems Corp. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Secondary battery degradation determination apparatus and secondary battery degradation determination method" was invented by Atsushi Takagi (Toyota-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery degradation determination apparatus configured to perform degradation determination for a secondary battery as a determination target includes a processor. The processor is configured to calculate an estimated electric capacity of the secondary battery, based on at least a slope between any two points on a charging curve indicating a charging chara...