US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Thermal mitigation using current redistribution" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,478, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Thermal mitigation using current redistribution" was invented by Shawn Searles (Austin, Texas), Jae-Hong Hahn (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hubert Attah (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal mitigation using current redistribution is disclosed. A power converter includes plurality of phases configured to provide a demand current to a load circuit. The power converter further includes a control circuit configured to activate selected ones of the plurality of phases based on the demand current. A plurality of temperature sensors distributed among t...