ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,512, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi load and multi battery system with sharing apparatuses" was invented by Jeffrey Schline (Portland, Ore.), Samantha Rao (Bengaluru, India), Naoki Matsumura (San Jose, Calif.), Ramon Cancel Olmo (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tod Schiff (Portland, Ore.) and Arunthathi Chandrabose (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workload dependent load-sharing mechanism in a multi-battery system. The mechanism is an energy management system that operates in three modes-energy saving mode, balancer mode, and turbo mode. The energy saving mode is a normal mode where t...