ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,259, issued on June 30, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Operations management of battery-powered devices" was invented by Bruce Edwards (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert Joseph Strasser (Spokane, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments set forth a method comprising determining, by a first computing device powered by a rechargeable battery and a non-rechargeable battery, whether to change operation of the first computing device from a first operating state to a second operating state based on one or more of a state of the rechargeable battery, a state of the non-rechargeable battery, or a state of a com...