US Patent Issued to Brunswick on April 21 for "Battery charger and method of control with fast charge mode" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,552, issued on April 21, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Battery charger and method of control with fast charge mode" was invented by Benjamin C. Shaffer (Bedford, N.H.), Gerald J. Demirjian (Auburn, N.H.) and Ximing He (Auburn, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a battery charger to charge a battery includes setting a fan speed threshold for a fan within a battery charger, wherein the fan speed threshold is less than a maximum fan speed of the fan. The operating speed of the fan in the battery charger is controlled so as not to exceed the fan speed threshold and the battery charger is cont...