ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,581, issued on July 21, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Technique for estimation of internal battery temperature" was invented by Frank Yaul (Somerville, Mass.), Sunrita Poddar (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Hemtej Gullapalli (Littleton, Mass.) and Omer Tanovic (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a method for estimating an internal temperature of a battery, the method comprising obtaining multiple terminal impedance measurements, wherein each of the terminal impedance measurements is taken at a different one of a plurality of frequencies; determining model parameters for a multivariab...