ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,339, issued on July 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Estimation of state of charge of a battery assembly" was invented by Yue-Yun Wang (Troy, Mich.), Chengwu Duan (Shanghai) and Chen-fang Chang (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating a parameter of a battery assembly includes a sensing device connected to a cell of the battery assembly, the battery assembly having a first battery chemistry, the sensing device including a measurement cell having a second battery chemistry that is different than the first battery chemistry. The system includes an estimator confi...