ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,467, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GREPOW INC. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Emergency starting power supply with contact impedance detection" was invented by Bing Liu (Shenzhen, China), Shiyu Liu (Shenzhen, China), Bing Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Shixing Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of an emergency starting power supply used to start a device or energize a battery. This emergency starting power supply automatically detects the contact impedance of the device or battery and provides prompts from a user interface to the user based on this detected contact impedance. The prompts guide the user a...