ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,717, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Adaptive multi-mode charging" was invented by Chunping Song (Palo Alto, Calif.), Cheong Kun (San Diego), Xiaolin Gao (San Jose, Calif.), Sanghwa Jung (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Yue Jing (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for adaptive multi-mode charging. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes at least one charger having a first node and a second node. The at least one charger is configured to accept an input voltage at the first node. The at least one charger is also configured to selectively operate in a first mode to ge...