ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,796, issued on April 7, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method and system using a battery voltage loop under high-current conditions" was invented by Sungkeun Lim (Cary, N.C.), Yen-Mo Chen (Morrisville, N.C.) and Bin Li (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for using a battery voltage loop under high-current conditions are described. A method for operating a charger, the method includes setting, by a charger controller, a battery voltage threshold; setting, by the charger controller, an on-the-go (OTG) voltage threshold; computing, by a first comparator, a battery voltage...