US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 27 for "Measuring an open circuit voltage of a battery" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,032, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measuring an open circuit voltage of a battery" was invented by Andrew Croxall (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Richard Nguyen (Burghaslach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for accurately measuring an open circuit voltage of a battery included in a battery-powered device are provided. One example apparatus generally includes a sample-and-hold circuit configured to sample a voltage of a battery before loading the battery and to hold the sampled voltage of the battery; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) selectively coupled to an output o...