US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 1 for "Current and heat balancing constant voltage charging" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,041, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Current and heat balancing constant voltage charging" was invented by Naoki Matsumura (San Jose, Calif.), Colin Carver (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Tod Schiff (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A constant voltage may be used during battery charging to reduce or avoid the formation of a dendrite, such as a stepped constant voltage. For each charging period, each level of the stepped constant voltage may be calculated to ensure a corresponding current level within each period remains below a safe current limit. A voltage transition between any two periods ...