ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,024, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamic adjustments to battery charging using battery metrics" was invented by Bryan Holmdahl (San Jose, Calif.), Ramez Nachman (San Francisco), Benjamin Thomas Gaide (San Jose, Calif.) and Wenyue Shi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic adjustments to battery charging using battery metrics. The device may determine a first value indicative of a battery voltage output during a first time interval, determine a second value indicative of a temperature of the battery during the...