US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on March 25 for "Portable device communicating with charger and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,470, issued on March 25, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Portable device communicating with charger and method of operating the same" was invented by Sangun Bang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dongjo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinsoo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Woonhyung Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Dongjoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungeun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable device includes: a modem configured to perform power line communication with a charger external to the portable device; and a charging circuit configured to, from first power provi...