ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,714, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-phase TLVR secondary voltage stress reduction" was invented by Hulong Zeng (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Ghahary (San Jose, Calif.) and Haiyu Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing multi-phase TLVR secondary voltage stress reduction are generally described. A semiconductor device can include a controller configured to map a plurality of pulse width modulation (PWM) signals in a default order as a first sequence to operate a trans-inductor voltage regulator (TLVR). The TLVR can include a p...