ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,283, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Qnovo Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Battery adaptive charging using battery physical phenomena" was invented by Dania Ghantous (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Fred Berkowitz (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Nadim Maluf (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and apparatus may carry out analysis of battery physical phenomena, and characterize batteries based on phenomena occurring in particular time and/or frequency domains. These systems may be additionally responsible for charging and/or monitoring a rechargeable battery. Examples of battery physical phenomena include mass transport (e.g., diffus...