ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,435, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Charging integrated circuit and operating method" was invented by Sungkyu Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Minkyu Kwon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sungwoo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Taejin Jeong (Incheon, South Korea) and Daewoong Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging integrated circuit (IC) in a mobile device including battery includes; a switching charger including at least one inductor, a direct charger including at least one capacitor, and a control circuit. The control circuit detects a connection betw...