ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,760, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device, charging system, and charging method" was invented by Tetsuya Makita (Tokyo) and Go Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: a battery; an acquisition unit that acquires, at each predetermined timing, satisfaction level information in which a residual capacity of the battery and a user satisfaction level with the residual capacity are associated with each other; and a charging unit that charges the battery with a charging voltage calculated as a voltage for charging the battery until the battery has a residual ca...