ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,443, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Hirokazu Hasegawa (Koganei, Japan), Atsushi Shibutani (Tokorozawa, Japan), Wataru Nimura (Hamura, Japan) and Masahiko Kodama (Ome, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a processor. The processor controls an electric power supply to an operating part, and charging and discharging of a secondary battery; estimates electric power being supplied to the operating part and the secondary battery; acquires a charge state for a case of charging the secondary batt...