ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,179, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Scalable, hierarchical power delivery system" was invented by Keith Cox (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jamie L. Langlinais (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Inder M. Sodhi (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical, scalable power delivery system is disclosed. The power delivery system includes a first level of power converter circuitry configured to generate one or more first level regulated supply voltages, and a second level of power converter circuitry configured to generate one or more second level regulated supply voltages. The first level of power convert...