ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,755, issued on June 2, was assigned to ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Battery system" was invented by Jonathan Mitchell Shine (Costa Mesa, Calif.), John Henry Harris III (Anaheim, Calif.) and Christopher Joseph Dycus (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor board receives a voltage difference between a battery pack not connected to the power bus and the power bus; determines whether the voltage difference indicates that a battery pack voltage is within a threshold voltage difference from a power bus voltage; in response to determining the voltage difference indicates that the battery pack voltage is...