ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,530, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Ir drop compensation" was invented by Takeo Yasuda (Nara, Japan) and Atsuya Okazaki (Setagaya-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a power supply or regulator connected to a target block with a ground line and a power line, a first switch in the power line, a sense line connected between the power supply for the regulator and a sense point on the power line at the target block side of the first switch, a second switch in the sense line, a third switch connected between the power line at the target block side of the fi...