ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,501, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Switching converter system" was invented by Hemant Shukla (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Ross C. Morgan (Bathgate, Great Britain), Malcolm Blyth (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Beata K Kubiak (Falkirk, Great Britain), Sven Soell (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Angus Black (Largs, Great Britain) and John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching converter system comprising a first converter phase and a second converter phase, the switching converter system being operable in: a power conversion mode in which the first and second converter phase...