US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 9 for "Detecting aircraft in-seat power" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,091, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detecting aircraft in-seat power" was invented by Geroncio O. Tan (Austin, Texas), Wei-Cheng Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chi-Che Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power adaptor provides power from a power source to a load device. The power adaptor includes a bulk capacitor and a controller. The controller detects a voltage level of input power from the power source, charges the bulk capacitor, detects a distortion of the voltage level in response to charging the bulk capacitor, and sets an output power limit for the power adaptor from a ...