US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 17 for "Power sequence synchronization between multiple devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,272, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Power sequence synchronization between multiple devices" was invented by Karl John Wallinger (Dallas) and Sunil Kashyap Venugopal (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management circuit includes a status terminal, an open drain driver, a slot parameter memory, and a slot duration counter. The status terminal is adapted to be coupled to a different power management circuit. The open drain driver is coupled to the status terminal, and is configured to drive the status terminal. The slot parameter memory is configured to store slot parameter value...