US Patent Issued to Apple on June 24 for "System-on-chip with power supply mode having reduced number of phases" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,684, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System-on-chip with power supply mode having reduced number of phases" was invented by Doron Rajwan (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Craig S Forbell (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Jamie L Langlinais (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes hardware circuits, a front-end power supply, voltage regulators, and control circuitry. The front-end power supply generates electrical power for the hardware circuits. The front-end power supply includes power stages that generate portions of electrical power and are activated and deactivated independently. Th...