ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,664, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Identifying a root cause of battery cell degradation in a battery pack" was invented by Azeem Sarwar (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Chaitanya Sankavaram (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Muhammad Aneeq Uz Zaman (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods and systems for identifying a root cause of battery cell degradation in a battery pack. Aspects include collecting voltage data for a plurality of battery cells in the battery pack and identifying a first cell of the plurality of battery cells as a defective battery cell. Aspects ...