ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,718, issued on June 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Power adapter that combines power input and communication input" was invented by Chia-Hang Yeh (Campbell, Calif.) and Yuan-Jen Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power adapter can include a power input node, a communication channel node, an output node, a low-pass filter, a modulator, and a high-pass filter. The low-pass filter can include a low-pass input node coupled to the power input node and a low-pass output node coupled to the output node. The modulator can include a modulator input node coupled to the communication channel ...