ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,960, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Vehicle battery pack health monitoring" was invented by Celina Mikolajczak (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for monitoring the degradation of electrochemical cells. A battery monitoring system monitors, for each of one or more cells of a plurality of cells in a battery, an amount of mechanical deformation using one or more measuring devices. The battery monitoring system determines a number of cells of the plurality of one or more monitored cells for which the monitored amount of mechanical deformation exceeds a defo...