US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Oct. 28 for "Universal serial bus power delivery (USB-PD)" (Indian, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,603, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Universal serial bus power delivery (USB-PD)" was invented by Arun Khamesra (Bangalore, India), Hariom Rai (Bangalore, India) and Soon Hwei Tan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a Universal Serial Bus Power Delivery (USB-PD) power converter includes responsive to detecting an absence of a load device sending a low power mode signal from a secondary-side controller, coupled to control a secondary-side of the USB-PD power converter, to a primary-side controller coupled to control a primary-side of the USB-PD power conv...