ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,019, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZOLL Circulation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for tracking and archiving battery performance data" was invented by Sean Yip (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Mack (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent rechargeable battery pack having a battery management system for monitoring and controlling the charging and discharging of the battery pack is described. The battery management system includes a memory for storing data related to the operation of the battery, and the battery management system is also configured to communicate the data related to the operat...