US Patent Issued to Micropower Group on May 27 for "Detection and verification of disconnection of a battery from a battery charger" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,148, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micropower Group AB (Vaxjo, Sweden).

"Detection and verification of disconnection of a battery from a battery charger" was invented by Jan Lindh (Vaxjo, Sweden) and Isak Frank (Vaxjo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting whether a battery (110) is disconnected from a battery charger (120). The method comprises determining (S1) if the battery charger (120) is charging the battery (110), and obtaining (S2) a charger model indicative of a first expected output voltage (Umod) of the battery charger (120) as a function of time when the battery charger (120) is connected to, bu...