ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,456, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Battery protection mechanisms" was invented by Vivek Saini (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Harrison Tung (Zhubei, Taiwan), Chihmin Chien (Taipei City, Taiwan), Amy Lai Wong (Newark, Calif.), Valentin Shaun de la Fuente (San Francisco), Juan Manuel Fantin (Mountain View, Calif.), David F. Chang (Los Altos, Calif.), Prashant Bhogilal Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Bengt Gunnar Brummer (San Francisco) and Jason Stanley Pi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements are presented for an electronic device having a battery housing and a tablet computer sy...