ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,923, issued on March 25, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Management of an energy storage system of a vehicle" was invented by Edward Jobson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Hanna Bryngelsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of managing an energy storage system (ESS) of a vehicle, wherein the energy storage system has a beginning of life (BOL). The vehicle has at least a first application and a second application, and the energy storage system has a first end of life (EOL1) for the first application and a second end of life (EOL2) for the second application....