ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,920, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Method for operating a battery" was invented by Josef Schmidt (Philippsburg-Huttenheim, Germany), Matthias Hauck (Schwetzingen, Germany), Jens Schafer (Graben-Neudorf, Germany), Thomas Zoller (Bruchsal, Germany) and Manuel Baena (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a battery, e.g., in a driverless transport vehicle, the battery is charged in a charging process starting from a start time; during the charging process at a number of measurement times a charging current flowing through the battery, a battery v...