US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Aug. 25 for "Tunable integrated voltage regulator" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,362, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tunable integrated voltage regulator" was invented by Meghna Maheshkumar Patel (Navsari, India) and Mudit Sunilkumar Khasgiwala (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated voltage regulator (IVR) for on-chip integrated circuit applications may include a tunable inductor that may be adjusted to generate a target output for the IVR. The tunable inductor may include a piezoelectric material that may cause the relative permeability of the inductor to change based on an applied stimulus voltage. A control circuit may receive a target ...