US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Optimizing battery charging with synchronized context data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,406, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optimizing battery charging with synchronized context data" was invented by Gina B Lu (San Francisco), Kartik R Venkatraman (San Francisco), Aaron Cotter (San Francisco) and Alexander D Palmer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device can include a power system including a battery and a processor programmed to: receive synchronized context data from one or more other devices associated with a user of the device, determine, at least in part based on the synchronized context data, one or more battery charging intervals, and operate th...