ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,643, issued on March 31, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Power adapter power delivery" was invented by Ramesh Kankanala (Bangalore, India), Ramakrishna Venigalla (Bangalore, India), Shaon Mazumder (Bangalore, India) and Amrit Kumar Jit (Mayurbhanj, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method for operating a USB-PD power adaptor comprises operating a first buck circuit comprising a first switch connected between a supply voltage terminal and a first USB port based on a first target voltage and a supply voltage at the supply voltage terminal, responsive to the first targe...