ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,144, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Self-test using reverse currents in multiphase power supplies" was invented by Mark L. Demarie (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Luke L Jenkins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method for using reverse currents to self-test multiphase power supply circuits. The method includes executing one or more operations on at least two circuit phases of one or more multiphase power supply circuits. The multiphase power supply circuits include a plurality of circuit phases, an...