ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,584, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Method for indicating a state of a battery of a vehicle" was invented by Lukas Budny (Rohrbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for indicating a state of a battery of a vehicle when the vehicle has suffered an accident, in which acoustic signals, which include coded items of information about at least one operating parameter of the battery, are sent by a loudspeaker of the vehicle. The acoustic signals are received by a microphone of a terminal and the coded items of information are decoded and output by the terminal."
The patent was filed on D...