US Patent Issued to VEHICLE ENERGY JAPAN on July 14 for "Battery control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,089, issued on July 14, was assigned to VEHICLE ENERGY JAPAN INC. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Battery control apparatus" was invented by Kohei Honkura (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Kei Sakabe (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery controller is designed to: estimate a state of health of a battery/batteries on the basis of battery data including a relation between a DC resistance component and a state of charge and a relation between a polarization resistance component and the state of charge; and controls the battery/batteries by referring to the battery data and extracting the relation between the DC resistance component...