ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,496, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CHENGDU CONVENIENTPOWER SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD (Sichuan, China).

"Low-voltage startup circuit for low-inductance wireless charging system and wireless charging system" was invented by Wei Wei (Sichuan, China), Senlin Hou (Sichuan, China), Jianping Wang (Sichuan, China) and Zhitong Guo (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-voltage startup circuit for a low-inductance wireless charging system includes a voltage input port Vrect, a common grounding port VSS, a PMOS driver signal control module pgate_ctrl_logic, a NMOS MN1 and a PMOS MP1, a Vmax power supply selection control module v...