ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,565, issued on March 18, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Methods and system for a battery" was invented by Hideo Kondo (Oizumi-Machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for a battery. The system may provide a fuel gauge circuit configured to select an energy curve from a plurality of energy curves and determine a remaining energy value based on the selected energy curve and a computed remaining capacity of the battery. The fuel gauge circuit controls a current to a load based on the remaining energy value."

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