ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,853, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electric energy managing system and method thereof" was invented by Tsu-Yang Tsai (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Ming-Hao Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric energy managing system applied to an electric vehicle, comprises the following components. A first state-of-health (SOH) calculating circuit, calculates an overall SOH of a fuel cell of the electric vehicle. The overall SOH is associated with an aging condition of the fuel cell. A second SOH calculating circuit, calculates a SOH of a lithium batt...