ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,157, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Battery storage maintenance" was invented by Mark K. Summerville (Apex, N.C.), Fang Feng (Cary, N.C.), Charles Byrd (Snow Camp, N.C.), Thomas E. Annunziata (Raleigh, N.C.) and Timothy Richard Scott (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for battery storage maintenance is disclosed. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to determine one or more battery characteristics for at least one battery of the apparatus, the battery ...