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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kartik R. Venkatraman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Shardul S. Mangade, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alessandro Pelosi, San Jose, CA (US);

Cyril de la Cropte de Chanterac, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 50/10 (2016.01); G01S 19/01 (2010.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/0075 (2013.01); G01S 19/01 (2013.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.02); H04B 5/0037 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device may have a power system. The power system may receive power such as wireless power or wired power and may use a portion of the received power to charge a battery. Power consumption by control circuitry in the device can be adjusted by deactivating or activating processor cores in the control circuitry and by selectively starting or stopping software activities. By selectively reducing power consumption by circuitry in the electronic device other than battery charging circuitry in the power system that is charging the battery, additional power may be made available to charge the battery and/or battery capacity can be extended. The electronic device may reduce non-battery-charging activities in the device in response to information gathered with sensors such as motion and temperature information, information from the power system, information on device location, information on software settings, and other information.


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