ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,697, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Scalable power delivery system" was invented by Shawn Searles (Austin, Texas), Sanjay Pant (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ludmil N. Nikolov (Chippenham, Great Britain), Tiago Filipe Galhoz Patrao (Swindon, Great Britain), Enrico Zanetti (Cascina, Italy), Hao Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Vincenzo Bisogno (Swindon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power delivery system included in a computer system uses multiple power converter circuits to generate respective voltage levels on multiple power supply nodes. An embodiment of the power delivery system includes an ...