ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,303, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Dynamic charge rate control of battery powered devices" was invented by Donghwi Kim (Kirkland, Wash.), Gregory Allen Nielsen (Kirkland, Wash.), Minsoo Kim (Bothell, Wash.) and Rajagopal K. Venkatachalam (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, software, and systems for enhanced management of computing system battery charge rates are included. In one implementation, a method includes identifying a preference level for battery charging performance for a computing system when supplied by a power supply having a power supply ...