US Patent Issued to Zero Motorcycles on April 15 for "System and method for maximizing battery capacity while in long term storage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. RE50,385, issued on April 15, was assigned to Zero Motorcycles Inc. (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

"System and method for maximizing battery capacity while in long term storage" was invented by Benjamin Theodore Odegaard (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Bryan Scott Cady (Boulder Creek, Calif.) and Nathan Glenn Knight (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When in long term storage, battery degradation is avoided by performing battery charge cycles at a voltage level where a change in the battery's voltage divided by a change in the battery's storage capacity is at a minimum, rather than discharging the battery to its minimum storage capacity and ...