ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,485, issued on March 18, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Charging method for battery pack, computer-readable storage medium, and power consuming apparatus" was invented by Lan Xie (Ningde, China), Zhen Lin (Ningde, China), Shan Huang (Ningde, China), Wei Li (Ningde, China) and Shichao Li (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging method for a battery pack includes sending, by a battery management module of the battery pack, a charging request for a first current to a charging pile for charging, controlling, by the battery management module in response to determining that f...