ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,577, issued on March 17, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for high-efficiency supply integrity with fast and large load variation" was invented by Shengyuan Li (Irvine, Calif.), I-Ning Ku (Irvine, Calif.) and Xicheng Jiang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a boost converter including a compensation circuit to implement a switching scheme and partitioned into multiple circuits and a calculator circuit configured to determine a voltage to be applied to the compensation circuit. The multiple circuits each includes a capacitor and a vol...