ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,341, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Distributed phase redundancy" was invented by Luke L. Jenkins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a switchable redundant voltage regulator (referred to herein as a redundant phase) that can be attached to multiple different power domains. Instead of providing a redundant phase for every load or voltage domain in a computing system, the embodiments herein describe sharing redundant phases between voltage domains. Thus,...