ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,157, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (Paris).

"Anomaly identification in an electrochemical system" was invented by Emeric Brun (Avon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing an electrochemical system, including: (a) collecting timestamped measurement data, (b) deducing for each instant: a reference state of charge of the system, a state of charge deviation of the first element having the highest voltage, a state of charge deviation of the second element having the lowest voltage, (c) grouping the data sets by ranges of values of the reference state of charge, and (d) assigning to each dat...