ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,955, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Lebesgue sampling-based deep belief network for lithium-ion battery diagnosis and prognosis" was invented by Guangxing Niu (West Columbia, S.C.) and Bin Zhang (Irmo, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fault diagnosis and prognosis (FDP) is critical for ensuring system reliability and reducing operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. Lebesgue sampling based FDP (LS-FDP) is an event-based approach with the advantages of cost-efficiency, uncertainty management, and less computation. In previous works, LS-FDP approaches are mainly model-based. However,...