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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ramesh Kuchibhatla, Sammamish, WA (US);
Bahram Ali, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and devices are described for charging a smart battery in a computing device. The methods and devices may include determining, by a battery management controller, a charging configuration for managing one or more battery modules of the smart battery and transmitting a charging configuration signal to one or more battery modules of the smart battery. The methods and devices may include receiving, by at least one of a plurality of charging coils, power from a wireless signal based on the wireless signal coupling energy to at least one of the plurality of charging coils at a frequency as the at least one of the plurality of charging coils and charging at least one battery module connected to a respective one of the plurality of battery control boards in response to a respective one of the plurality of charging coils receiving the power from the wireless signal.