ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,537, issued on March 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Interleaved phase current balancing" was invented by Shanguang Xu (Plano, Texas), Hua Tang (Shenzhen, China), Zhaofu Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Teng Feng (Shenzhen, China) and Ian L. Bower (Bedford, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one example, an apparatus includes a current sense circuit, an imbalance detector, and a current balancer. The current sense circuit including a first phase input, a second phase input, a first sense output, and a second sense output. The imbalance detector having a detector output, a first detector input, and second d...