US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 18 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining a residual value of battery storage devices" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,571, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining a residual value of battery storage devices" was invented by Arno Arzberger (Bayern, Germany), Manfred Baldauf (Erlangen, Germany) and Sascha Schulte (Hochstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a method for ascertaining the residual value of a used battery. The method may include: feeding the battery to a test station; bringing it to a test temperature; stabilizing the temperature within less than 2 K; measuring a load cycles using a high-precision coulometry apparatus; car...