ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,583, issued on May 19, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Predictive battery failure detection system" was invented by Erin Walker Post (Des Moines, Iowa), Tongan Cai (State College, Pa.), Sarthak Rajvanshi (Brookline, Mass.), Charlotte Gils (Otterburn Park, Canada), Charles Edwin Ashton Brett (New York), Jan Lester Geronimo Lopez (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Mayank Nayar (Renton, Wash.) and Eric Greenwald (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for predicting vehicle battery failures includes maintaining a rolling buffer of voltage data from a vehicle and analyzing the data during engine state transition...