US Patent Issued to Apple on June 16 for "Coil driven switched capacitor and controller for wired and inductive charging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,821, issued on June 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Coil driven switched capacitor and controller for wired and inductive charging" was invented by Zhiyuan Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jizhen Fu (San Jose, Calif.) and Weihong Qiu (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil driven switched capacitor (CDSC) converter can include at least one input coil that receives input power; first and second cascades of one or more CDSC cells, an input of each cascade being coupled to the at least one coil, and an output of each cascade being coupled to an output bus of the CDSC converter. The at least one input coil ...