US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on March 31 for "System for estimating power dissipation and/or efficiency" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,998, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System for estimating power dissipation and/or efficiency" was invented by Alastair M. Boomer (Edinburgh, Great Britain), John B. Bowlerwell (Dunfermline, Great Britain), Malcolm Blyth (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Eric J. King (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating power dissipation in an integrated circuit comprising a power converter and an amplifier, the system comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive a signal indicative of an output voltage to a load which, in use of the integrated circuit, is driven by the...