ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,363, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power supply circuit with improved power efficiency using multiplexers" was invented by Subbarao Lanka (Bangalore, India), Shruti Hanumanthaiah (Bangalore, India) and Chethan Devaraj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards methods and apparatus for power generation. An example method generally includes: determining at least one multiplexer configuration of one or more multiplexers to direct current from at least one of a plurality of power supply phase circuits to at least one of a plurality of v...