ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,676, issued on May 20, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device capable of identifying a state of a rechargeable battery" was invented by Jisu Ryu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a rechargeable battery configured to supply power to the electronic device; a processor connected to the battery; and memory storing a plurality of executable instructions, wherein the execution of the executable instructions by the processor causes performing a plurality of operations, wherein the plurality of operations ...