ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,260, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for coherent power management" was invented by Joseph T. DiBene II (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Inder M. Sodhi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Keith Cox (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gerard R. Williams III (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system includes multiple power management mechanism operating in different time domains (e.g., with different bandwidths) and control circuitry that is configured to coordinate operation of the mechanisms. If one mechanism is adding energy to the system, for example, the control circuitry may in...