The musings of a fool..... Just about every assertion in the Batteroo patent is wrong....
To have that in your patent application is embarrassing enough if you are just some hack "inventor" with little knowledge of batteries or electronic product design. But to be two major players in the electronics industry, CEO of tech companies in the power/charger industry no less, PhD's, university professor, hundreds of patents to your name, etc etc as they boast, it's beyond embarrassing ![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xfacepalm.gif.pagespeed.ic.EBDwh1hCfo.png)
The problem with the patent for them is that it's there forever now, they can't take it back, they can't change it like they do their website, and it shows exactly what they based their entire product and business model on.
Everything after the patent is them trying to scramble to save face with their idea and claims.
I think it is not embarrassing at all (for them). It has oft been noted that we live in a "post fact society".
There is no need for anything in a patent to be technically accurate, nor any need for the claimed invention to actually work.
If the purpose of the whole endeavor is to get a financial result, then all that is required is that the patent exists, and that it contains sufficiently smooth technobabble for non-technical investors to find it believable (which in a post fact society is not a high hurdle to jump over).
We must not view the claims as intending to have any technical merit at all; merely as artifacts in a plan to make money. As such, the people behind the plan are presumably quite happy with their work. They have generated a lot of publicity and have a lot of people talking about them.