Patent ID: 11923704
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A machine-readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of a machine to cause the processor to perform operations to perform a method, the operations comprising:
accessing a first status of a first battery pack interface coupled to a load via a first load switch;
accessing a second status of a second battery pack interface coupled to the load via a second load switch wherein the first status and the second status include a representation of a remaining capacity of respective first and second battery packs attached to respective first and second battery pack interfaces;
comparing the first status and the second status by calculating a difference in the remaining capacities; and
controlling the first and second load switches based on the difference in the remaining capacities to balance remaining capacities of the first and second battery packs.