ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,985, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Switched multi-cell battery system" was invented by Liang Jia (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for a switched multi-cell battery system for electronic devices. In some aspects, a switched multi-cell battery system may transfer, via a plurality of power control switches electrical power from a power adapter to components of the electronic device by charging battery cells in series and by discharging the battery cells in parallel or as a single battery cell. As a result, the switched multi-c...