ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,487, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Power management chip and operating method for supporting multimode operations" was invented by Huidong Gwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehwang Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minjae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhyeok Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yunho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management chip includes a gate driver configured to output a first gate signal driving a first power switch and a second gate signal driving the second power switch, a multiplexer configured to receive an error detect signal...