ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,440, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Thermal event detection and notification for vehicle batteries" was invented by David Scharmann (Charleston, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computing systems, and technology for thermal propagation monitoring and notification via air when vehicle is off are presented. For example, a computing system may be configured to obtain, while the vehicle is in an off state, battery data indicative of a state of a battery onboard the vehicle. The computing system may be configured to determine, based on the battery data, an occurrence of a the...