ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,226, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Switched capacitor converter with tap-change capability" was invented by Vijay G Phadke (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched capacitor converter battery charging circuit can include an input that receives an input current, an output that delivers an integer multiple of the input current to a battery, a plurality of flying capacitor stages disposed between the input and output, and controller circuitry coupled to the flying capacitor stages that selectively enables or disables one or more of the flying capacitor stages to select the integer m...