US Patent Issued to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION on May 12 for "Switchable charger with Type-A interface supporting PD protocol, data cable and charging device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,159, issued on May 12, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Switchable charger with Type-A interface supporting PD protocol, data cable and charging device" was invented by Tao Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Junchen Wei (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger includes a Type-A female socket, a PD charging processing unit, a non-PD charging processing unit, a data cable matching unit, and a first switching unit. The Type-A female socket includes a first communication pin. If the data cable matching unit determines, based on a matching signal transmitted via the first communication pin, t...