US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 30 for "Charger integrated circuit for charging series battery device and electronic device including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,720, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Charger integrated circuit for charging series battery device and electronic device including same" was invented by Yonghwan Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungwoo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyoungseok Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Daewoong Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungwook Heo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger integrated circuit is configured to charge a battery device including a first battery and a second battery connected in series. The circuit includes a direct charger configured to generate a first chargi...