ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,199, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"System and method of predicting battery state of health" was invented by Xing Jin (Columbus, Ind.), Ninad Ghike (Columbus, Ind.), Ruigang Zhang (Columbus, Ind.), Anant Puri (Columbus, Ind.) and Richard A. Booth (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method used to predict the state of health of a battery in a powertrain of a vehicle including a vehicle route profile generator arranged to generate a vehicle specific rout profile based on historical vehicle driving information, are disclosed. In one example, the system and method also include a p...