ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,899, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Intelligent power management system and method for monitoring battery integrity" was invented by Hideo Kondo (Oizumi-machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring system for a battery of a battery electric system includes a sensor array, a processor, and memory. Execution of the instructions by a processor according to a method causes the processor to receive parameters of the battery from the sensor array, calculate a rate of increase of an internal resistance (triangleR ratio) of the battery across multiple state...