US Patent Issued to Empower Semiconductor on Sept. 2 for "Clock generation for multi-phase converters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,261, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Empower Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Clock generation for multi-phase converters" was invented by Narendra Nath Gaddam (Milpitas, Calif.) and Shrinivasan Jaganathan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiphase switching voltage regulator is disclosed. The regulator includes a first clock generator circuit configured to receive a reference clock, and to generate M first clocks, where the M first clocks are phase separated by 360deg/M, a plurality of phase extrapolator circuits, where the plurality of phase extrapolator circuits includes N phase extrapolator circuits, ...