ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,406, issued on June 16, was assigned to TotalEnergies OneTech SAS (Courbevoie, France), University of California-Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.) and Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Brussels).

"State-of-health estimation pipeline for Li-ion battery packs with heterogeneous cells" was invented by Preet Gill (El Sobrante, Calif.), Scott Moura (Berkeley, Calif.), Chitra Dangwal (Berkeley, Calif.), Dong Zhang (Albany, Calif.), Luis D. Couto (Oxford, Great Britain), Wente Zeng (San Francisco) and Sebastien Benjamin (Leognan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing a state of health of a battery having a plurality of heterog...