ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,637, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"DCDC converters" was invented by Samuli Hallikainen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit portion comprises a DCDC converter arranged to provide current from an output of the converter to one of a plurality of loads at a time. The plurality of loads includes a low priority load and a primary load. In response to the controller detecting, while the DCDC converter is providing current to the low priority load, that the voltage across the primary load is below a first threshold, channel logic circuitry is configured to stop providing c...