US Patent Issued to Apple on June 24 for "General purpose input/output (GPIO) supply harvesting" (American, British, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,729, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"General purpose input/output (GPIO) supply harvesting" was invented by Nathan F Hanagami (San Francisco), Maryam Mortazavi (Austin, Texas), Ruopeng Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Ludmil N Nikolov (Chippenham, Great Britain), Floyd L Dankert (Austin, Texas), Enrico Zanetti (Cascina, Italy), Jianbao Wang (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kiranjit Dhaliwal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein correspond to supply harvesting operations. Power management circuitry may receive a supply voltage from other power management circuitry. This...