US Patent Issued to RENESAS DESIGN (UK) on June 2 for "Battery charging with charge current throttling to assist minimum system voltage regulation" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,961, issued on June 2, was assigned to RENESAS DESIGN (UK) Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Battery charging with charge current throttling to assist minimum system voltage regulation" was invented by Arun Sundar (Campbell, Calif.), Jinseok Park (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Jain (Dublin, Calif.) and Aravind Mangudi (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery charger is provided that includes a switching power converter that regulates an output voltage on an output voltage rail. A transistor couples between the output voltage rail and a rechargeable battery for a system. An error amplifier controls the conductance of the transistor base...