ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,116, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data transfer for vehicles" was invented by Julian Vlaiko (Kfar Saba, Israel), Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Aki Bleyer (Even Yehuda, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle battery includes at least one battery cell and a battery controller for charging the at least one battery cell via a power interface of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery further includes a battery memory and a data interface to transfer data between the ba...