US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Flash charging parallel battery packs separated by a high resistance interconnect" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,364, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Flash charging parallel battery packs separated by a high resistance interconnect" was invented by Julian Arlo Binder (Redwood City, Calif.), Brian Jonathan Loh (San Francisco) and Meera Radhakrishnan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-battery flash charging system is described herein. The system is configured to reduce a power charging loss at a battery-operated device. This device includes multiple, distributed batteries. The process of reducing the power charging loss at the battery-operated device is achieved b...