ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,040, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power supply" was invented by Atsushi Oka (Tokyo) and Ryotaro Harada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply includes a DC-to-DC converter that charges a storage battery and a controller that controls the charging of the storage battery. The power supply has operating modes including a constant-voltage mode where the storage battery is charged at a constant voltage and a current-limiting mode where the storage battery is charged with an upper limit specified for charging current for the storage battery. The controller includes a first control block...