ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,734, issued on March 25, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Detecting multiple chargers coupled to the same battery" was invented by Michael Golob (Bradenton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a controller of a communications network includes a processor that creates a monitoring set of battery chargers by placing a set of battery chargers in a monitoring mode. The processor performs multiple iterations of a multiple-charging source (MCS) detection process. Each multiple iteration of the MCS detection process includes creating an active one of the monitoring set of battery charge...