ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,694, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Power adapters with multiple charging ports" was invented by Gwanbon Koo (Fremont, Calif.), Youngbae Park (Taipei, Taiwan) and BongGeun Chung (Siheung, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-port power adapters. At least one example is a method including: supplying a first bus voltage to a first device by way of a DC-DC converter coupled to a link voltage; supplying a second bus voltage to a second device by way of a second DC-DC converter coupled to the link voltage; converting an AC voltage to the link voltage by way of a...