US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Multi-phase power converter with external phase circuits" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,291, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-phase power converter with external phase circuits" was invented by Hao Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Sarfraz Shaikh (Swindon, Great Britain), Jay B. Fletcher (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sanjay Pant (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mark A. Yoshimoto (San Jose, Calif.), Vincenzo Bisogno (Swindon, Great Britain) and Shawn Searles (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments for generating a voltage level on a regulated power supply node are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an external phase circuit on a first integrated circuit, where the e...