ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,104, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for predicting a residual service life of vehicle batteries of a fleet of electric vehicles" was invented by Christian Simonis (Leonberg, Germany) and Csaba Domokos (Simmozheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is introduced for predicting a residual service life of vehicle batteries of a fleet of electric vehicles. In the method, parameters of the vehicle batteries are measured during the operation of the electric vehicles and transmitted to a server; a conditional probability is determined that the residual se...