ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,397, issued on July 15, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Battery monitoring system for a lift device" was invented by Stefan Eshleman (Oshkosh, Wis.), Michael Bolton (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Patrick Booth (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift device includes multiple electrical components and a battery monitoring system. The battery monitoring system includes multiple batteries and a controller. The multiple batteries are configured to power the multiple electrical components. The controller is configured to obtain sensor data from the batteries. The controller is also configured to determine a state of charg...