ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,988, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Constant current charging capacitor test" was invented by Adrian Mocanu (Langley, Canada), Zeljko Zupanc (Vancouver, Canada), Derrick Wilson (North Vancouver, Canada) and Andrew Morning-Smith (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that applies a constant current to a capacitor, wherein the constant current causes a linear voltage increase in the capacitor, and determines a capacitance based on the constant current, a voltage change in the capacitor during the linear voltage increase, and a...