ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,697, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intellihot Inc. (Galesburg, Ill.).

"Thermal battery operational condition monitoring and alert system" was invented by Sridhar Deivasigamani (Mundelein, Ill.) and Sivaprasad Akasam (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the suitability of a thermal storage medium of a thermal battery based in a locale, the method including predicting a required concentration of the thermal storage medium based on historical temperature data of the locale and predicted temperature data of the locale, wherein the required concentration of the thermal storage medium is predicted b...