ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,038, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for operating a traction battery for a motor vehicle, electronic computing device, and motor vehicle having a traction battery" was invented by Simon Erhard (Geltendorf, Germany), Marko Graser (Munich), Thomas Kellner (Ismaning, Germany), Christian Skrivanek (Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm, Germany) and Lukas Wolf (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a traction battery for a motor vehicle, which can be discharged down to a predefined minimum charging state during operation of the motor vehicle and can be charged up to a predefined maxim...