ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,584, issued on July 21, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for sorting a set of batteries based on a machine classification model" was invented by Christophe Secouard (Grenoble, France) and Sami Oukassi (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for the machine learning of a model for classifying batteries into two categories: functional or defective, the method comprising the following steps: acquiring, on a set of batteries of the same type, a group of measurements characteristic of the operation of a battery, carrying out complete cycl...