ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,007, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for managing plural batteries" was invented by Youngmi Ha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sungjoon Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Duhyun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and method are disclosed, including a first and second battery, a first and second fuel gauge, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: determining capacity ratios of the first and second batteries based at least on absolute capacities of the first and second batteries, as ...