US Patent Issued to Lennox Industries on Jan. 20 for "System and method for automatic detection of a battery type in battery operated devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,727, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"System and method for automatic detection of a battery type in battery operated devices" was invented by Arun Kunasekaran (Periyakuppam, India) and Mohan Renganathan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provided systems and methods may compare an initial terminal voltage of a battery to a first initial voltage threshold and a second initial voltage threshold. The provided systems and methods may determine whether the initial terminal voltage of the one or more batteries is lower than the first initial voltage threshold and if the initia...