ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,954, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Voltage regulator wake-up" was invented by Ruchi Shankar (Karnataka, India), Somshubhra Paul (Karnataka, India) and Gaurang Helekar (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a voltage regulator having an output voltage and a power management system, coupled to the voltage regulator. The power management system operable to determine whether the output voltage is within an active range, set the active range to a first range during a first time, or during a first mode, and set the active range to a second range for a second time, or during...