US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on April 15 for "Single inductor multiple output charger for multiple battery applications" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,508, issued on April 15, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Single inductor multiple output charger for multiple battery applications" was invented by Yen-Mo Chen (Morrisville, N.C.), Sungkeun Lim (Cary, N.C.) and Qian Sun (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery charger is described that can support multiple battery applications with a single USB type-C port. An architecture can include a single charger transferring power to multiple battery stacks. The architecture can include a plurality of battery stacks each respectively housed in a distinct electronic device. The architecture ...