ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,567, issued on July 15, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Battery state of charge compensation" was invented by Pradeep Vijayan (Bangalore, India) and Ruxi Wang (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power source includes: a battery defining a state of charge; a converter in electrical communication with the battery; and a controller in operable communication with the converter, the controller including a compensation toggle circuit configured to provide a compensation toggle value based on a power output of the battery; a dynamic droop control circuit configured to receive the compensation toggl...