US Patent Issued to Bretford Manufacturing on June 24 for "Adaptive laptop computer charging system" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,362, issued on June 24, was assigned to Bretford Manufacturing Inc. (Franklin Park, Ill.).

"Adaptive laptop computer charging system" was invented by Hubert Benjamin Ki Durn Ng (Park Ridge, Ill.) and David Johnson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laptop computer storage system includes a power delivery system configured to negotiate charging Power Delivery Objects (PDOs) with each laptop computer connected to the computer storage system. The charging power delivery objects specify, for each laptop computer, the voltage and amount of current to be supplied to the particular laptop computer. Different charging power deli...