US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Techniques for operating a switched-mode power supply" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,364, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for operating a switched-mode power supply" was invented by Sunghyun Park (Campbell, Calif.), Pavan Kumar Ramakrishna (San Jose, Calif.) and Roger Brockenbrough (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for transitioning between various operating modes for a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) device powered by a coin cell battery in an effort to maintain performance and functionality of the WLAN device and efficiency of the SMPS. One example apparatus is an integrated circuit (IC) for ...