ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. RE50,903, issued on May 26, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Charging apparatus and terminal" was invented by Haibin Zhou (Beijing), Yupeng Qiu (Beijing), Zhi Chang (Beijing) and Tieli Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging apparatus includes a sampling module, a control module, a clamping module, and a switched capacitor module. The sampling module is configured to connect to a battery, collect current status information of the battery, and provide collected status information for the control module; the control module is configured to adjust output energy of the clamping module based on the status...