ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,535, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"SIMO DC to DC converter for dynamically providing a regulated output voltage within a pre-defined range" was invented by Ashoke Ravi (Portland, Ore.), Ofir Degani (Haifa, Israel), Harish Krishnamurthy (Beaverton, Ore.), Shahar Wolf (Haifa, Israel), Sally Amin (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Suhwan Kim (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a single inductor multiple output (SIMO) DC-to-DC converter for dynamically providing a regulated output voltage within a pre-defined range. The converter may be configured as a buck-boost converter that i...