ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,480, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"State of charge estimation using battery voltage" was invented by Mark James Hardiman (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for state of charge estimation using battery voltage. The device may determine a first value indicative of a battery voltage during a first time interval, determine a second value indicative of an open circuit voltage of the battery during the first time interval, and determine a third value indicative of a battery temperature during the first time interval. The dev...