ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,758, issued on June 2, was assigned to Qnovo Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Battery adaptive charging using battery physical phenomena" was invented by Dania Ghantous (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Fred Berkowitz (Los Gatos, Calif.), Nadim Maluf (Los Altos, Calif.) and Christina Peabody (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and apparatus may carry out analysis of battery physical phenomena, and characterize batteries based on phenomena occurring in particular time and/or frequency domains. These systems may be additionally responsible for charging and/or monitoring a rechargeable battery. Examples of battery physical phenomena i...