ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,069, issued on July 1, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Battery discharge current management system with fast discharging function and related integrated circuit" was invented by Christian Sporck (Campbell, Calif.), Rui Wang (Chengdu, China) and Min Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery discharge current management system used for discharging battery packs. The battery discharge current management system has a voltage converting circuit and at least one switch module. The voltage converting circuit can operate at a charge mode or a discharge mode. The voltage converting circuit ...