ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,604, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for determining indica for remaining useful life of a battery" was invented by Nilay Dave (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining salient attributes of batteries for characterizing battery value. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring usage information about batteries that indicates aspects about prior use of the batteries. The method includes analyzing, using a predictor, the usage information...