US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "In-system tuning of multi-phase power converter circuits" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,464, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"In-system tuning of multi-phase power converter circuits" was invented by Jay B. Fletcher (Saratoga, Calif.), Sanjay Pant (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shawn Searles (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunable multi-phase power converter circuit that includes multiple phase circuits coupled to a regulated power supply node via corresponding inductors is disclosed. A control circuit may, during a first time period, activate a particular phase circuit to source a current to the regulated power supply node, and measure a first value of a parameter associa...