ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,978, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to RESONAC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lithium ion battery lifetime prediction method, discharge capacity retention rate prediction method, lifetime prediction program, discharge capacity retention rate prediction program, and information processing device" was invented by Yuji Kurauchi (Tokyo), Takuya Minami (Tokyo), Yuji Ito (Tokyo), Daisuke Kohno (Tokyo), Hirofumi Inoue (Tokyo) and Yoshishige Okuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium ion battery lifetime prediction method executes, by a computer, acquiring training data including cycle measurement data and lifetime data of a battery, learning a l...