ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,691, issued on May 27, was assigned to CPS Technology Holdings LLC (New York).

"System and method for battery selection" was invented by Zhihong Jin (Pewaukee, Wis.), Michael Thomas Ballo (Glendale, Wis.), Zhenli Zhang (Glendale, Wis.), Diego Hernan Diaz Martinez (Milwaukee) and Raul Jacinto Arredondo Cardenas (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a vehicle comprising a vehicle system having a system having a number of loads defining a load profile; a validated battery comprising one or more batteries which can fulfill the load profile; an integrated battery selected from the validated battery, the integrated ...