ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,648, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Adaptive power control for an electronic device" was invented by Donghwi Kim (Kirkland, Wash.) and Gregory Allen Nielsen (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adaptively controlling the distribution of power supplied by a charger of an electronic device between an energy storage device and one or more hardware elements is provided. The method includes determining whether current communicated between the charger of the electronic device and the energy storage device satisfies a charging condition, the charging condition ba...