ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,533, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AMBIQ MICRO INC. (Austin, Texas).

"System for profiling power using ton pulses" was invented by Ivan Bogue (Austin, Texas), Jesse Coulon (Austin, Texas) and Andre Belanger (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a power requirement for a device powered by a buck converter on a system on chip based on Time on pulses (Ton) is disclosed. A buck converter supplies output voltage to enable the device. The buck converter is driven by a Ton pulse generator generating Ton pulses to control charging of a load capacitor. A counter counts the Ton pulses during the supply of ...