ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,735, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Chengli Li (Suzhou, China).

"Power transmission system and method for universal serial bus receptacles" was invented by Lei Qian (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission system and method for a universal serial bus (USB) receptacle includes multiple AC-to-DC conversion modules corresponding one-to-one to multiple USB interfaces; a switch module including a first switch submodule electrically coupled between each AC-to-DC conversion module and its corresponding USB interface, and a second switch submodule electrically coupled between each AC-to-DC conversion module and ...