US Patent Issued to POWER INTEGRATIONS on March 4 for "Current sharing for multi-output charging device" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,169, issued on March 4, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Current sharing for multi-output charging device" was invented by Eng Hwee Quek (Singapore), Aditya Jayant Kulkarni (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Ran Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Roland Sylvere Saint-Pierre (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging device, comprising a first power converter configured to provide a first output current, a second power converter configured to provide a second output current, a switch coupled to an output of the first power converter and an output of the second power converter, a first socket coupled to the output...