ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,142, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Smart advice to charge notification" was invented by Cyril De La Cropte De Chanterac (San Francisco), Phillip Stanley-Marbell (San Francisco), Katrik Venkatraman (San Francisco) and Gaurav Kapoor (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for advising a user when an energy storage device in a computing system needs charging. State of charge data of the energy storage device can be measured and stored at regular intervals. The historic state of charge data can be queried over a plurality of intervals and a state of charge ...