US Patent Issued to Tesla on July 21 for "System and methods for electric vehicle battery capacity determination and management" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,296, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and methods for electric vehicle battery capacity determination and management" was invented by Frederic Marangone (Louisville, Colo.), Nicolas Altenburger (Los Altos, Calif.) and Christopher Satkoski (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for managing a battery of an electric vehicle. In some embodiments, a system initiates battery discharging on a battery pack, where the battery discharging continues until the battery pack reaches a first threshold level of charge. The system then est...