US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 25 for "Systems, methods, and devices for providing power to devices through connectors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,339, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and devices for providing power to devices through connectors" was invented by Sompong Paul Olarig (Pleasanton, Calif.), Matthew Bryson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Stephen Fischer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include coupling a device to a host through a connector, receiving, by a host controller, a request for boost power from the device, determining, by the host controller, an amount of surplus power available from one or more power sources arranged to provide power to the device through the connector,...