ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,687, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method for charging an energy store, mobile device and charging device" was invented by Christoph Kukla (Trabitz, Germany) and Stefan Aschoff (Eckental, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method charges an energy storage unit of a mobile device, in particular a hearing aid, which is alternately able to be charged in charging phases and able to be used in use phases. For the charging in an upcoming charging phase, a probable duration of the upcoming charging phase and a probable energy consumption of a subsequent use phase are determined based on past charg...