ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,313, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"System and method for battery module replacement" was invented by Chad A. Stewart (Hastings, Minn.) and Kent L. Eastlick (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for replacing one or more battery modules of a battery pack include using one or more communication devices to instruct a battery management system of the battery pack that a number of battery modules of the battery pack is equal to a remaining number of battery modules in the battery pack after one or more battery modules have been disconnected. The remaining batter...