ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,037, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"DCDC converters" was invented by Bartosz Gajda (Trondheim, Norway), Frode Pedersen (Trondheim, Norway) and Samuli Hallikainen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit portion comprises a DCDC converter that provides current to one of a plurality of loads at a time. A controller detects when a voltage across an under-supplied load of the plurality of loads is below a first threshold. Channel logic circuitry provides current from the converter to the under-supplied load in response to the controller detecting that the voltage is below ...