ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,311, issued on July 22, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"System and method for electronic device" was invented by Kevin W. Eberman (St. Paul, Minn.) and Jason A. Graves (Darlington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system having an electronic device powered by at least one battery, a controller communicably coupled to at least one battery, wherein the controller is configured to: determine a state of charge of the at least one battery; and interrupt a function of the electronic device for at least one predefined time period based on the state of charge of the at least on...