ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,226, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Battery pack system" was invented by John W. Riley (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Huyen Hoa Tran (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one aspect is direct to a system. The system can include a data processing system including one or more processors, coupled to memory. The data processing system can receive a data packet from a battery pack, the data packet indicating a characteristic of the battery pack. The data processing system can select, based on an identifier associated with the battery pack, a decoding scheme associated w...