US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on Nov. 25 for "Lithium battery passivation detection, activation and maintenance module" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,868, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Lithium battery passivation detection, activation and maintenance module" was invented by Robert Reginald Albert Feltham (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Martin A. Chiarizio (Coral Springs, Fla.) and Andreas Brenner (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retrofit module for lithium battery passivation, detection, activation and maintenance (PDAM) may include a test circuit, a load circuit, a microcontroller and means for electrically connecting the PDAM module to a target battery in a device. Upon power-up and/or joining or r...