US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 18 for "USB battery charging mode advertising and differentiation" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,484, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"USB battery charging mode advertising and differentiation" was invented by Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a charging port mode by receiving a data contact detect (DCD) Complete signal, reducing a voltage on a first data pin of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector of a portable device, and determining that a condition is true when a voltage on a second data pin of the USB connector is equal to or greater than 0.8 to 2.0 Volts (V), and is false otherwise. When the condition is true, a first signa...