ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,962, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery life prediction using a global-local decomposition transformer" was invented by Chianing Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Ba Khai Nguyen (Austin, Texas) and Alexander T. Pham (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to implementing battery life prediction strategies. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first battery dataset containing a first set of battery entries, a first set of historical usage entries, a ...