US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Flexible system for creating multiple main system rails from a current limited input source" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,520, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Flexible system for creating multiple main system rails from a current limited input source" was invented by Mark A Yoshimoto (San Jose, Calif.), Madhavi V Tagare (San Jose, Calif.), Vijayanish Varadharajan (Milpitas, Calif.) and Damon Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply for an electronic device having a plurality of voltage rails including at least one low voltage rail and at least one high voltage rail can include a single inductor multiple output (SIMO) converter. The SIMO converter can include a single inductor; a plurality of...