ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,977, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and battery capacity reporting method" was invented by Chen-Kuo Yuan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jen-Hao Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a battery, a battery gauge, and a processor. The battery is configured to supply power to the electronic device. The battery gauge is configured to gauge the battery to generate a plurality of remaining capacities a battery temperature, and a battery voltage of the battery. The processor is configured to sequentially read the plurality of remaining capac...