ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,268, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Vertiv Corp. (Westerville, Ohio).

"Contactless detection and recognition of critical device subsystems" was invented by Bosko Mrkovic (Konjscina, Croatia) and Douglas Keith Maly (Stubicke Toplice, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management device (PMD) may include one or more electrical components including at least one of a battery, a rectifier, an alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) converter, or a DC to AC converter, where the one or more electrical components are configured to receive input power and provide output power to one or more loads. The PMD may also incl...