US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 21 for "Information handling system visual image inspection to detect battery swell" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,500, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system visual image inspection to detect battery swell" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Chiu-Jung Tsen (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system includes a battery having a pattern that aids in detection of battery swell, such as by capture of a visual image of the battery and pattern with a camera for comparison against a threshold of the pattern distortion that indicates excessive battery swell. For instance, the pattern i...