US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Nov. 3 for "Battery with pop-up mechanism to visually indicate battery malfunction and/or to electrically disengage battery from device" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,162, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Battery with pop-up mechanism to visually indicate battery malfunction and/or to electrically disengage battery from device" was invented by Arnold Weksler (Morrisville, N.C.), Bouziane Yebka (Morrisville, N.C.), John C. Mese (Morrisville, N.C.), Nathan Peterson (Morrisville, N.C.), Russell Speight VanBlon (Morrisville, N.C.) and Mark Delaney (Morrisvillr, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus includes a battery. The battery includes at least one battery cell, a casing that houses the at least one battery cell, and a mechanism i...