ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,759, issued on June 2, was assigned to Makesense Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for battery operation and maintenance, and electronic device therewith" was invented by Xiao Yan (Shanghai), Qiqi Yin (Shanghai) and Danfei Gu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses method and apparatus for operation and maintenance of a battery and an electronic device. The method includes: performing a charging/discharging process on a to-be-analyzed battery cluster, and determining key battery parameters (KBP) of a plurality of cells in the battery cluster; determining whether the battery cluster i...