ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,427, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Charge control system and method thereof" was invented by Fu-Min Chen (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan), Ming-Che Hung (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan) and Chia-Ching Lu (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge control system includes a memory and a processing unit. The memory integrates a power consumption of the electronic device, a sleep signal, a boot signal, a hibernate signal or a shutdown signal received by the electronic device, a charge status of the charger, and a remaining power of the battery at the previous time p...