ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,353, issued on May 13, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Method and system for determining at least one power contact resistance" was invented by Malte Von Hofen (Stuttgart, Germany) and Christian Saemann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method determines at least one power contact resistance or at least one resistance value corresponding to the at least one power contact resistance between at least one pack power contact of a battery pack and at least one apparatus power contact of an electrically driven work apparatus or of a charging apparatus. The pack power contact and the appa...