ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,150, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GOTION INC. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Method, apparatus, and device for managing batteries" was invented by Xiaojun Li (Fremont, Calif.), Jianwei Li (Fremont, Calif.) and Rick Rajaie (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments in this disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and device for managing batteries. The method comprises: collecting battery cell data for respective battery cells, which indicates statuses of the battery cells; sending the battery cell data to a data processing device to enable the data processing device to determine the configuration of a battery pack based o...