ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,068, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Power awareness for energy harvesting" was invented by Yacin Belmihoub-Martel (Montreal, Canada) and Christian Galante (LaSalle, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery powered system determines available power prior to running a user application. The system uses a linear portion of a discharge curve to determine available power. If the available power is sufficient to run the user application the system runs the user application. The system stores the power needed for the user application in order to determine if the available power is suffic...