ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,483, issued on March 18, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Multi path battery charger" was invented by Mihail Jefremow (Dusseldorf, Germany), Amit Bavisi (Saratoga, Calif.), Jiangjian Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Xue Ke (Beijing) and Turev Acar (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a wired input/output, a wireless input/output, and a battery. A wired charging path between the wired input/output and the battery includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A wireless charging path between the wireless input/output...