US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Aug. 4 for "Microcontroller and associated power management unit" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,801, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Microcontroller and associated power management unit" was invented by Venkatesh Kadlimatti (Hubli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an integrated circuit is provided that includes first, second, third, and fourth terminals, a power converter that includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor, and a controller configured to control the power converter. The first terminal is configured to be coupled to a battery. The first transistor is coupled to the first terminal, the second transistor, the th...