ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,976, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Zitara Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for determining a battery condition" was invented by Evan Murphy (San Francisco), Patrick Herring (San Francisco), Daniel Vickery (San Francisco), Elizabeth Goldberg (San Francisco), Jacqueline Maslyn (San Francisco), Matthew Bohan (San Francisco), Shyam Srinivasan (San Francisco), Dustin Summy (San Francisco), Zachary Gima (San Francisco), Brian Goodall (San Francisco) and Mark Tobenkin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining whether a battery is operating in an anomalous condition can includ...