ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,996, issued on June 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for protecting batteries" was invented by Karthik Kadirvel (Cupertino, Calif.), Sachin Ramesh Chandra (Woodinville, Wash.) and Ankur Gupta (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) detecting a battery condition of a wearable battery-operated device that indicates a threat to a battery's health and (ii) in response to detecting the battery condition, performing a battery-protection action by initiating a reverse power flow across a bidirectional connection...