US Patent Issued to Qnovo on Oct. 7 for "Method and circuitry to adaptively charge a battery/cell" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,386, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Qnovo Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method and circuitry to adaptively charge a battery/cell" was invented by Fred Berkowitz (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dania Ghantous (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Nadim Maluf (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to techniques and/or circuitry to applying a charge pulse to the terminals of the battery during a charging operation, measure a plurality of voltages of the battery which are in response to the first charge pulse, determine a charge pulse voltage (CPV) of the battery, wherein the charge pulse voltage is...