ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,013, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bridgestone Mobility Solutions B.V. (Amsterdam, Niger).
"Vehicle battery monitoring" was invented by Paul Roeland Verheijen (Amsterdam), Jasper Johannes Anthonius Pauwelussen (Amsterdam) and Silviu Stanimir (Amsterdam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle battery voltage data is received from a telematics control unit (TCU) of a vehicle dining multiple driving cycles, and analysed to determine a state of health (SOH) and state of charge (SOC) of the battery. The TCU also provides data relating to the state of an ignition switch of the vehicle for use in analysing the voltage data. A starting...