US Patent Issued to AMPERE, NISSAN MOTOR on May 6 for "Method for initializing the charge state of a battery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,124, issued on May 6, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method for initializing the charge state of a battery" was invented by Driemeyer Franco Ana-Lucia (Montigny le Bretonneux, France) and Akram Eddahech (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating the charge state of a battery includes initializing the charge state, including estimating an initial charge state value. The initializing includes: receiving a stored charge state value for a sleep mode time of the battery, computing a charge state value from a measurement of the no-lo...