ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,996, issued on June 10, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Power controller" was invented by Erik Santiago (La Tour du Crieu, France), Antoine Fabien Dubois (Austin, Texas) and Pierre Philippe Calmes (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses a power controller [400] configured to modulate a load current sent to a load, including: a first chip [406] including a set of higher-power circuits configured to directly modulate the load current sent to the load [410]; a second chip [404] electrically coupled to the first chip and including a set of lower-power circuits; wherein the set of higher-...