ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,687, issued on June 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Voltage regulator with binary search and linear control" was invented by Fabrice Paillet (Portland, Ore.), Anand Ramasundar (Portland, Ore.), Khondker Ahmed (Hillsboro, Ore.), Harish K. Krishnamurthy (Hillsboro, Ore.), Cary Renzema (North Plains, Ore.), Christopher Mandic (Hillsboro, Ore.) and James Keith Hodgson (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for voltage regulator (VR) control are provided. An apparatus can include first, second, and third comparators configured to determine whether a load voltage (VLOAD) dro...