ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,511, issued on April 14, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Charger, data cable and charging device" was invented by Lin Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger, a data cable, and a charging device. The charger includes a first Type-A port, a PD charging processing unit, a non-PD charging processing unit, a data cable matching unit, and a first switching unit; where the first Type-A port includes a first communication pin and a second communication pin, and in a case that the charger is connected to a first data cable, the first switching unit connects the first communicati...