ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,790, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).

"Matrix regulation control" was invented by Mark Jonathan Childs (Cirencester, Great Britain), Davide Bianchi (Swindon, Great Britain) and Julian Tyrrell (Swindon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power provision device including: a load element; a power supply plane configured to provide current to the load element; a plurality of power supply elements configured to provide current to the power supply plane; wherein each power supply element is configured to provide a current corresponding to a plurality of selectable current va...