ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,386, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining the respective temperature of several battery cells of a vehicle battery via extrapolation of a measured temperature; control device and vehicle battery" was invented by Alexander Fill (Stuttgart, Germany) and Arber Avdyli (Reichenbach an der Fils, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining respective temperatures of a plurality of battery cells includes determination of measured values including a first voltage of a first battery cell, a second voltage of a second battery cell, and a respective current th...