ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,219, issued on May 27, was assigned to Empower Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Switched capacitor recirculating converter circuits" was invented by Trey Roessig (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter circuit. In one aspect, the converter circuit includes an input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, and first, second, third and fourth capacitors coupled to a plurality of switches, where the plurality of switches are arranged to repetitively cycle the first, second, third and fourth capacitors between a first state and a second state to generate first and a second output voltag...