ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,478, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Gotion Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for battery SOC estimation" was invented by Trevor Jones (Fremont, Calif.), Xiaojun Li (Fremont, Calif.), David Jauernig (Fremont, Calif.) and Jianwei Li (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for battery state of charge (SOC) estimation, including: a pre-processing unit (200), configured for detecting operating parameters of a batters, and filtering at least part of the parameters to generate filtered parameters; an SOC estimating unit (300), configured for calculating nominal SOC by using a first neural network based o...