ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,586, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Delta voltage hybrid battery fuel gauge" was invented by Gang Ji (Medina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example devices and techniques are described herein for determining a relative state-of-charge of a battery. An example device includes memory, a battery, a temperature sensor and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor may be configured to sense a battery temperature. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate an end-of-discharge state-of-charge of the battery. The processing circuitry may...