ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,038, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Impulse Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems, apparatuses and methods for appliances with integrated energy storage" was invented by Samuel Redmond D'Amico (San Francisco), Samuel William Lenius (Palo Alto, Calif.), Bradley James Tallon (Los Angeles), Deanna James Chang (New York) and Brian H. Sharp (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent energy system includes an energy-consuming appliance, a battery module coupled to the appliance, and a bidirectional converter coupled to the appliance and the battery module by a power bus. The battery module is configured to provide power...