US Patent Issued to lowa State University Research Foundation, International Business Machines on April 7 for "Inverting single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) DC-DC converters" (Iowa, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,860, issued on April 7, was assigned to lowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa) and International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Inverting single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) DC-DC converters" was invented by Muhammad Rizwan Khan (Ames, Iowa), Cheng Huang (Ames, Iowa) and Xin Zhang (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power converter is disclosed having an input switch coupled between a supply terminal and a switching input node, a capacitor coupled between the switching input node and a switching multiple output node, a discharge switch coupled between the switching input node and ground...