US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 10 for "Load dependent method to reduce quiescent current during multi-cell to single-cell battery regulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,026, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Load dependent method to reduce quiescent current during multi-cell to single-cell battery regulation" was invented by Julian Arlo Binder (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mike Voong (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein may achieve efficient regulation of power delivered from one or more batteries to a circuit or system with a power control device that has two or more operating modes. In a first operating mode, the power control device may select a first power circuit to deliver power to a system load wi...