ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,551, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Technique for adjusting charging operation or discharging operation of external device by battery pack" was invented by Takuya Umemura (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure provides a battery pack including a rechargeable battery, a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, a first signal terminal, a second signal terminal, a positive-side current path, a negative-side current path, a temperature signal generation circuit, a biasing circuit, and a control circuit. The temperature signal generation circu...