US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 3 for "Power management of communication system by DC voltage" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,991, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power management of communication system by DC voltage" was invented by James M. Hollabaugh (San Jose, Calif.), Antonio R. De Lima Fernandes (Panaji, India), Calvin M. Ryan (Berkeley, Calif.), Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan (San Jose, Calif.) and Mitul Mahendrakumar Panchal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes of a first earbud and a second earbud, each including an interface chip and a case. The case includes a case interface chip configured to communicate data with, and transfer power to, interface chips of the first earbud ...