ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,067, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Reconfigurable battery pack" was invented by John M Petersen (Wake Forest, N.C.), Bouziane Yebka (Apex, N.C.), Nathan Peterson (Durham, N.C.) and Gary D Cudak (Wake Forest, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include sensing condition of power cells in a configured multiple power cell pack via a pack management unit; based in part on the sensing, identifying a number of the power cells as a number of target cells via the pack management unit; disabling sensing condition of the number of target cells via the pack management unit; and reconfig...