ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,154, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Method and system for estimation of open circuit voltage of a battery cell" was invented by Maksim Subbotin (San Carlos, Calif.), Farshad Ramezan Pour Safaei (Los Gatos, Calif.), Anantharaman Subbaraman (Mountain View, Calif.), Nikhil Ravi (Redwood City, Calif.), Gerd Simon Schmidt (Palo Alto, Calif.), Reinhardt Klein (Mountain View, Calif.), Yumi Kondo (San Jose, Calif.), Yongfang Cheng (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jake Christensen (Elk Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system includes a memory, a current sensor that measures a curre...