ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,579, issued on May 27, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Managing multiple energy storage devices in an electronic device based on environmental conditions" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Xiaofeng Zhu (Nanjing, China) and Rohit Sisodia (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, a method and a computer program product for selecting at least one of a first energy storage device and a second energy storage device to power at least one power consuming component based on identified environmental factors. The method includes, receiving, via a processor, a first temperature...