USB to UART(s) chip ch342/ch343/ch344/ch347/ch9101/ch9102/ch9103/ch9104 are fully compliant to the Communications Device Class (CDC) standard, they will work with a ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for FTDI USB Serial Converter Drivers. This is a driver pack that allows USB ports to be used to connect to Serial bus devices with a USB - Serial adapter cable.

So apparently the problem is somehow related to the Windows power driver (hidbatt.sys i guess), Windows serial driver (usbser.sys) and Windows generic parent driver for complement USB devices (usbccgp ...