US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on Aug. 4 for "Current spike reduction in battery charging devices" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,750, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Current spike reduction in battery charging devices" was invented by Mehul Dilip Shah (Cary, N.C.), Sivaprakash Kannan (Cary, N.C.), Yang Li (Fremont, Calif.) and Xiwen Zhang (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for regulating a system rail voltage of a battery charger is described. An integrated circuit can be configured to detect a condition that requires an activation of a trickle charge mode of a battery charger. The integrated circuit can, in response to the detection, set a reference voltage to an intermedia...