ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,879, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Bi-directional power flow control using a single battery charger" was invented by Yen-Mo Chen (Morrisville, N.C.), Rahul Ramesh (Cary, N.C.), Shahriar Jalal Nibir (Apex, N.C.) and Sungkeun Lim (Apex, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for bi-directional power flow control using a single battery charger are described. According to one example, a semiconductor device is generally described. The semiconductor device may include a charger configured to supply power from a charging interface to a battery in a forward mode, an...