ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,724, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Distributed charging station and method of managing the same" was invented by Nelson Bonilla (Shelton, Conn.), Jason Walker (Bethany, Conn.), John Brower (Fairfield, Conn.), Nicole Gay (Thomaston, Conn.), Matthew Samojeden (Rye, N.Y.) and Shadi AbuGhazaleh (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system may include a battery. The battery management system may further include a central charging station configured to: provide power to charge the battery, and output an alert to a user of the battery in response to the battery not being re...