ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,410, issued on March 17, was assigned to FDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charging method and backup power supply device" was invented by Shun Mochizuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging method for supplementarily charging a plurality of secondary batteries accommodated in a casing on a regular basis includes the steps of: charging the plurality of secondary batteries at the same time at the time of initial supplementary charging; acquiring each of peak temperatures during charging of the plurality of secondary batteries; listing combination patterns when the plurality of secondary batteries are split into a plurality of charging ...