ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,521, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Feed unit, feed system, and electronic device for increasing power supplied to a battery based on a device state and/or a control of a charging current" was invented by Koichi Akiyoshi (Chiba, Japan) and Yoichi Uramoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed unit includes: a power transmission section configured to perform power transmission using a magnetic field or an electric field, to a device to be fed including a secondary battery; and a power-transmission control section configured to control power transmission operation in the power transmission...