ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,351, issued on July 28, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Battery identification system, battery identification method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Minako Terao (Musashino, Japan), Kazuma Takenaka (Musashino, Japan), Naoki Noguchi (Musashino, Japan), Satoshi Yoshitake (Musashino, Japan), Jun Okano (Wako, Japan), Yuki Tominaga (Wako, Japan), Kaoru Omichi (Wako, Japan) and Yukiko Onoue (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery identification system includes a sensor having a sensing surface and a plurality of magnetic elements arranged in or o...