ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,579, issued on July 15, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Power supply apparatus, health monitoring method therefor, and storage system including the same" was invented by Su Il Jin (Icheon, South Korea), In Bo Shim (Icheon, South Korea), Won Seob Song (Icheon, South Korea) and Jin Yeon Won (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply apparatus may include a charging circuit configured to receive an external voltage and to generate a charging voltage by charging and discharging energy by switching according to a level of the charging voltage; an auxiliary power circuit configured to store ...