ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,686, issued on May 19, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for monitoring health parameters of battery pack" was invented by Devaraj Gopalsamy Dasamuthu (Pollachi, India), Christopher James Green (Peterborough, Great Britain), Adam Jonathan Stubbs (Lincolnshire, Great Britain) and Nikhil Badam (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery health monitoring (BHM) system for monitoring at least one health parameter of a battery pack. The BHM system includes an internal battery and a clock powered by the internal battery. The clock is configured to track time. The system further includes a contr...