ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,125, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Voltage regulator mode operations" was invented by Fangyong Dai (Spring, Texas) and Qijun Steve Chen (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a computing device includes a voltage regulator having a voltage regulator controller, a first power stage circuit, and a second power stage circuit. When a control signal indicates that the voltage regulator is to operate in a single-phase mode, the first power stage circuit supplies a first current to a hardware processor and the second power stage circuit does not supply a second ...