ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,431, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Seamless swapping of charger forward and reverse modes" was invented by Sungkeun Lim (Apex, N.C.), Chong Han (Durham, N.C.) and Phillip Marc Johnson (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a battery charger are described. A controller can operate a battery charger under a forward mode. Under the forward mode, a power supply is connected to the battery charger to provide power to a load and to charge a battery. The controller can determine an anticipation of removal of the power supply. In response to dete...