US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 18 for "Power converter circuit for use with multiple low-current power rails" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,044, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power converter circuit for use with multiple low-current power rails" was invented by Victor Zyuban (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jay B. Fletcher (Saratoga, Calif.) and Hao Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management circuit for computer systems includes a power converter circuit that generates different voltage levels at different time periods. Multiple voltage regulator circuits are coupled to the output of the power converter circuit and to respective local power supply nodes. Switch devices are used to bypass the voltage regulator circui...