US Patent Issued to AUDI, VOLKSWAGEN on Dec. 30 for "Method for determining an available amount of energy of a vehicle battery for an emergency pulse, battery monitoring device and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,913, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for determining an available amount of energy of a vehicle battery for an emergency pulse, battery monitoring device and motor vehicle" was invented by Rolf Naumann (Michelau, Germany) and Marco Baumgarth (Vordorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal resistance value of a vehicle battery is determined from a measured ripple current. An actual energy content of the vehicle battery is determined from the internal resistance value and a predetermined battery characteristic curve. A temperature value of the...