ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,791, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Power switch design" was invented by Kapil K. Kothari (Fremont, Calif.), Abhimanyu Sharma (San Francisco), Praveen Raghavan (Los Gatos, Calif.), Lama Mouayad (Milpitas, Calif.), Naveen Sai Jangala Naga (Milpitas, Calif.), Neeladri Sain (San Jose, Calif.), Vivekanandan Venugopal (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ofir Elster (Raanana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit devices with power gated domains between functional circuit regions are described. The power gated domains include power switch cells that have active region logic (e.g., material type) tha...