ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,689, issued on May 19, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Method and system for evaluating power battery aging state and screening retirement" was invented by Bin Duan (Jinan, China), Peng Huang (Jinan, China), Chenghui Zhang (Jinan, China), Yongzhe Kang (Jinan, China) and Yunlong Shang (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for evaluating power battery aging state and screening retirement, wherein the method includes: performing first-level screening according to appearance and voltage data of a power battery; obtaining charging test data in a set time of the power battery subjected to the ...