ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,054, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Smart battery device and fast charging method thereof" was invented by Wei-Ting Yen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery device with a C-rate of 1C includes a battery cell, a protection chip, and a microcontroller. The protection chip is electrically connected to the battery cell, determines whether to activate the protection mechanism of the battery device according to the state of the battery cell. The microcontroller is electrically connected to the protection chip, detects the RSOC of the battery cell. When an external power su...