ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,420, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Uneven load mitigation in a mobile computing device having multiple power storage devices" was invented by ChiaMing Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Weichih Liao (Taoyuan, Taiwan), JhengFong Lyu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Po-chang Lu (Taoyuan District, Taiwan) and Chung-Yi Pan (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example foldable mobile computing device includes a first side including a first power storage device coupled to a first regulator. The device includes a second side including a second power storage device coupled to a second regulator and co...