US Patent Issued to Hilti on July 28 for "Method for determining the state of health of a rechargeable battery" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,345, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Method for determining the state of health of a rechargeable battery" was invented by Philipp Braun (Kaufbeuren, Germany), Moses Ender (Buchs, Switzerland) and Robert Stanger (Kaufbeuren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes adjusting a rechargeable battery from a first state of charge to a second state of charge; creating a first current intensity value after a first predetermined time duration has elapsed, after a predetermined temperature value has been reached, after a predetermined current intensity value has been reached, or if the di...