ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,299, issued on May 5, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Flexible battery system for a vehicle" was invented by Joseph Orender (Cupertino, Calif.), Christopher Scott Saunders (San Jose, Calif.) and Derek Wong (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration instruction associated with configuring a plurality of batteries which supply power to a plurality of motors in a vehicle is received. The batteries are configuring as specified by the configuration instruction, where the batteries are able to be configured in a plurality of configurations, including: a first configuration where at least some of th...