US Patent Issued to Cummins on Nov. 3 for "Automatic discharge of damaged batteries in electric vehicles" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,039, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Automatic discharge of damaged batteries in electric vehicles" was invented by Mark N. Bays (Columbus, Ind.) and Chetan Ponnathpur (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented technology for identifying or determining potentially damaged batteries in an electrical machine system, and for discharging the potentially damaged batteries. Embodiments include determining potentially damaged batteries by monitoring and determining information representative of one or more electrical or mechanical or thermal conditions of the batteries. The condition...