US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 11 for "Depth of discharge determination of alkaline batteries" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,559, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Depth of discharge determination of alkaline batteries" was invented by Martin D. Donakowski (Minneapolis) and Kaimin Chen (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a depth of discharge of an electrochemical cell includes (i)) providing one or more alkaline electrochemical cells comprising Ag2O-Zn; (ii) applying a varying voltage potential to the one or more alkaline electrochemical cells, (iii) measuring an output current response of the one or more alkaline electrochemical cells, the output current response comprising a phase resp...