ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,551, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC.

"Energy storage device" was invented by Kristine Wing-yin Chelakkat (San Marino, Calif.), Akshay Kishor Murkute (Irvine, Calif.), Curtis Wesley (Orange, Calif.) and Michael Quincena (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an energy storage device having a port, a motion sensor, an ambient light sensor, a status indicator having one or more segments, and one or more processors coupled to memory. The energy storage device can determine a state of the energy storage device, detect a movement, and detect an ambient light level. The energy storag...