ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,662, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Battery monitoring method in a rail vehicle" was invented by Georg Lohneis (Ebensfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the on-board battery of a rail vehicle. The state of charge of the on-board battery is regularly ascertained in an automated manner and is compared with a desired state of charge value. In case the ascertained state of charge value drops below the desired state of charge value, a message is generated for initiating measures for charging the on-board battery."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1, 2019, under Application...