ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,436, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Battery status monitoring and battery management of an information handling system" was invented by Jui Chin Fang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Hao Chiu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wen-Yung Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Pei-Ying Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing a battery including measuring, in response to a first charging current and over a first time period, a first amperage and a first voltage of the cell at predetermined intervals; measuring, in response to a second charging current and over a second time period, a second amperage and a...