US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Oct. 21 for "Detect and prevent battery swelling" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,481, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Detect and prevent battery swelling" was invented by John Landry (Spring, Texas), Augusto Queiroz de Macedo (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Amit Kumar Singh (Spring, Texas) and Frederick Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are described herein for monitoring power source usage of a computing device, including a battery and another power source, over time. In various examples, time periods of this monitored time may be added to a time count based on their immediately previous or immediately subsequent time periods satisfying...