ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,792, issued on April 7, was assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Power module and power supply method thereof" was invented by Chia Yu Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Yii Lin Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Kian-Ming Chee (Taipei, Taiwan), Kai-Chun Liang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Jui Shih (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module adapted to a computer system is provided in the disclosure. The power module includes three batteries, a first voltage output terminal, a second voltage output terminal, a third voltage output terminal, and a charging/discharging control unit. The charging/discharging control unit determines a...