US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on April 1 for "Apparatus and methods for transferring charge" (British, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,961, issued on April 1, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Apparatus and methods for transferring charge" was invented by John Paul Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Toru Ido (Tokyo) and Claire Motion (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for delivering power from a battery node of a battery to an output node, the output node coupled to an analyte monitoring device, the apparatus comprising: a slow charging path between the battery node and the output node; a fast charging path parallel to the slow charging path, the fast charging path switchably coupled between the battery node and the o...