ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,888, issued on June 3, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Intelligent vehicle battery with blockchain connectivity" was invented by Andreas Martin Viktor Ropel (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ben Peter Lloyd (Gothenburg, Sweden), Matthias Yannick Philippe Le Saux (Gothenburg, Sweden), Konstantinos Chatziioannou (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Klas Roland Persson Signell (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for tracking information regarding the condition history of a vehicle battery using blockchain technology. In an example embodiment, a system comprises a vehicle battery, and one or more sen...