US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on Aug. 26 for "Multi-phase voltage converter with individual phase temperature reporting" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,280, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Multi-phase voltage converter with individual phase temperature reporting" was invented by Chiahsin Chang (Sammamish, Wash.), Chao Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and James Nguyen (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-phase voltage converter has a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs), and a controller. Each IC has a temperature report pin and a temperature sensing circuit, the controller has a temperature input pin connected to the temperature report pin of each of the plurality of ICs. The controller provides an acquiring command vi...