ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,400, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Koki Holdings Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery pack and electrical device" was invented by Masashi Takehisa (Ibaraki, Japan) and Tomomasa Nishikawa (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a battery pack and an electrical device, one or more sensors are provided at a battery pack side, and sensor information acquired on a battery side is used to control an electrical device main body. Sensors that collect and output physical information arising due to external factors are provided at a battery pack, and a control part of the battery pack processes signals detected by the sensors and create...