ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,068, issued on July 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Battery monitoring system" was invented by Jonathan Robert Hird (Cambridge, Great Britain), Norman Ward (Gloucester, Great Britain), Nicholas Collins (Stonehouse, Great Britain) and John Charlesworth (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery comprises a housing, one or more energy cells contained within the housing, and a battery monitoring system contained within the housing. The battery monitoring system includes a health sensor configured to take health measurements corresponding to a health condition of the battery...