ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,704, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Power supply circuit and operating method" was invented by Christian Vincent Sorace (Falicon, France), Vincent Regnauld (Herouville Saint Clair, France), Ludovic Oddoart (Opio, France) and Nicolas Patrick Vantalon (Cannes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a power supply circuit is provided, comprising: a first output node and a second output node; an inductor detection unit configured to detect whether an inductor is present at the first output node and to output a corresponding detection signal;...