US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 6 for "Determining longevity of batteries using depth of discharge" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,246, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Determining longevity of batteries using depth of discharge" was invented by Larold Olson (Chisago City, Minn.) and Katherine Bach (Arden Hills, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry associated with an implantable medical device (IMD) may store a value of a shared voltage as a battery voltage threshold. A shared voltage is a voltage magnitude at which the voltage curves for the population of batteries converge at a particular percent depth of discharge (% DoD). The shared voltage is a consistent voltage magnitude across the population of batterie...