ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,902, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Wireless battery system and related methods" was invented by Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Ramanuja Vedantham (Frisco, Texas), Minghua Fu (Plano, Texas), Jesus Daniel Torres Bardales (Plano, Texas) and Mario Mlynek (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are described for a wireless battery system. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the instructions to identify a first battery node to transmit an uplink command...