ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,365, issued on June 24, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Reduced standby current in a multi-battery wearable device" was invented by Zhibin Zhang (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments to provide a multi-battery energy storage device. One embodiment comprises a first battery and a second battery, with a first circuit branch coupling a positive side of the first battery to a positive side of the second battery, a second circuit branch coupling a positive side of the first battery to a negative side of the second battery, a third circuit branch coupling the negative side of the first ...