US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Regulator switch array" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,123, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Regulator switch array" was invented by Jay B. Fletcher (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan F. Hanagami (San Francisco), Sanjay Pant (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hao Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Shawn Searles (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage regulator circuit included in a computer system may employ a control circuit and a switch array that includes multiple switch circuits. Different groups of switch circuits that include respective groups of switch devices are coupled between an input power supply node and corresponding regulated power supply nodes. To...