ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,940, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Distributed power management with separate peak and average power paths" was invented by Madhavi V. Tagare (San Jose, Calif.), Vijayanish Varadharajan (Milpitas, Calif.), Rong Guo (Cupertino, Calif.), Mao Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Benedict Foo (Mountain View, Calif.), Soledad Calderon Arroyo (San Francisco), Hao Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Chongli Cai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management circuit for a computer system is disclosed. The power management circuit includes a power storage circuit, a first power converter circuit, and a s...