US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on Sept. 8 for "Arcing prevention through input voltage loop" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,006, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Arcing prevention through input voltage loop" was invented by Fengshuan Zhou (Cary, N.C.), Yen-Mo Chen (Morrisville, N.C.), Sungkeun Lim (Apex, N.C.) and Fa Chen (Morrisville, 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 of a battery charger can measure an input voltage of power being provided to an input port of a battery charger. The controller can, in response to the input voltage being less than a reference voltage, operate an input voltage control loop to regulate a ...