ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,621, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery degradation monitoring assessment and management" was invented by Shiming Duan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Chaitanya Sankavaram (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Shengbing Jiang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Rasoul Salehi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yaqing Xu (Clawson, Mich.), Philip James Prociw (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Ryan B. Moulliet (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a battery having a set of battery sensors. A controller is in communication with the set of battery sensors. The contro...