ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,292, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Computing device having a multiple battery cell architecture including a temperature sensor and cooling element" was invented by James Robert Lim (Mountain View, Calif.), Wei Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Brian Conner (Davenport, Calif.) and Brett Wilson (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example outdoor mounted device includes a first battery configured to operate at a low temperature range that at least includes negative 20 Celsius; a second battery configured to operate at a high temperature range; a temperature sensor; and processing circuit...