ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,261, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lunar Energy Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Battery health monitoring system" was invented by Erin E. Bjornsson (Portland, Ore.), Gokhan Budan (Oxford, Great Britain) and Mark Holveck (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter is used to generate a measurement-related AC signal. At a battery, the measurement-related AC signal is received and the measurement-related AC signal is responded to. Battery state information associated with the battery responding to the measurement-related AC signal is received. A battery health metric is determined based at least in part on the...