ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,021, issued on March 24, was assigned to Halo Microelectronics International (Campbell, Calif.).
"Versatile battery charging system and control method" was invented by Rui Liu (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery charging system includes a buck switching converter configured to operate in either a buck mode or a boost mode depending on a system reconfiguration, a linear charger having a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein at least one terminal of the first terminal and the second terminal of the linear charger is used for the system reconfiguration, and a switched capacitor converter configured to oper...