ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,966, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (London).
"Power management circuit" was invented by Pietro Gambetta (Leghorn, Italy) and Mark Mercer (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing power and a power management circuit are presented. The power management circuit includes a three terminals switching converter coupled to a controller. The switching converter has a single inductor and two sets of switches. The first set of switches is coupled to an input terminal. The second set of switches is coupled to a battery terminal. The single inductor is provided between a first switching node and a...