ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,080, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system battery charge arbitration factoring energy consumption and energy source" was invented by John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas), Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas) and Jake M. Leland (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery charge agent stored in non-transitory memory and executing on an information handling system processing resource, such as a system charger, sets a minimum battery charge state based on energy parameters that include a carbon footprint for an external power source so that the battery disc...