ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,369, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Forecasting timeseries analysis for electrical vehicle battery state utilizing a hybrid transformer architecture" was invented by Saeth Wannasuphoprasit (San Francisco), Gianina Alina Negoita (San Leandro, Calif.) and William A. Paxton (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for controlling an electrical system via battery forecasting for an electrical system. Time series data is transformed into a series of battery image data including a multi-channel image representing a plurality of battery characteristics and/or b...