ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,641, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multilevel switched capacitor regulator with multiple cores" was invented by Nicolas Butzen (Portland, Ore.) and Harish Krishnamurthy (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for providing an output voltage using any of multiple configurable modes of a switched capacitor voltage regulator (SCVR). In an embodiment, a switched capacitor (SC) voltage converter comprising buses, and cores each coupled to the buses. A first core of the cores comprises a capacitor, and a switch network by which a terminal of the capacitor is to be s...