ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,579, issued on March 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Device Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Voltage regulator with programmable telemetry configuration" was invented by Wei Han (Shangahi, China), Meeta Surendramohan Srivastav (Austin, Texas), Lili Chen (Shanghai) and Indrani Paul (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include: a processor; a voltage regulator configured to provide a processor voltage and a processor current to the processor; and a voltage regulator controller that can include a current sensor comprising an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having an ADC input range and configured to provide c...