ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,437, issued on March 25, was assigned to Zitara Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for battery management" was invented by Evan Murphy (San Francisco), Shyam Srinivasan (San Francisco), Mark Tobenkin (San Francisco), Zachary Gima (San Francisco), Dustin Summy (San Francisco), Brian Goodall (San Francisco), Elizabeth Goldberg (San Francisco), Wen Xing (San Francisco), Jacqueline Maslyn (San Francisco), Sharon R. Kuo (San Francisco), Xander Rudelis (San Francisco), John Stefanski (San Francisco) and Megan Pitcavage (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and/or system configured to select state estima...