US Patent Issued to Phoenix Broadband Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Method and apparatus for estimating the available runtime of a battery backup system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,526, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Phoenix Broadband Technologies LLC (Hatfield, Pa.).

"Method and apparatus for estimating the available runtime of a battery backup system" was invented by Michael L. Quelly (Quakertown, Pa.) and Walter Michael Wilczewski (Glenside, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring system continuously calculates the estimated runtime of a bank of batteries in a battery backup system during both a period of operation when the load current is supplied by a commercial source of AC power and during a period of operation when the commercial source of AC power is not present and the load curre...