ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,604, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"USB power delivery management" was invented by John Mitchell Perry (Mckinney, Texas), Yoon Jae Lee (Allen, Texas), Pasupathy Visuvanadan (Murphy, Texas) and Jeffrey Howard Enoch (Melissa, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, a method includes receiving, by a power delivery (PD) controller, a first sensed voltage, while the PD controller is producing a first control signal and in response to determining that the first sensed voltage passes a threshold voltage, starting, by the PD controller, a timer, where the threshold voltage is a first ...