ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,005, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for determining degradation of batteries" was invented by Marielle Pointer (Westborough, Mass.) and Kiran Kumar (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating battery degradation of a battery energy storage system (BESS) are disclosed. An iterative process is executed over a pre-defined time period divided into iterations. For each iteration, an average temperature of the BESS is determined by inputting a state of health (SOH) and charge rate into an average temperature look-up-table (LUT)....