ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,254, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery information processing apparatus, battery manufacturing support apparatus, battery assembly, battery information processing method, and method of manufacturing battery assembly" was invented by Keita Komiyama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When triangleSOC (an amount of variation in SOC per one running) is greater than a second threshold value, a management server generates third rebuilding information indicating that a cell is a suited cell. When triangleSOC is greater than a first threshold value and smaller than the second threshold...