US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Battery hot swapping" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,935, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Battery hot swapping" was invented by Vignesh Mariyappan (Trichy, India), Anand Kumar Kalairaj (Bengaluru, India), Prashanth Kumar Kakkireni (Bengaluru, India) and Amit Das (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for swapping a primary power source (e.g., a main battery) while using a secondary power source (e.g., a backup battery or a supercapacitor) to power a portable device. One example integrated circuit (IC) for power management generally includes a first power supply node; a second power supply node; a first port for coupling to...