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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lilly Huang, Portland, OR (US);

Christopher Schaef, Lebannon, NH (US);

Vaibhav Vaidya, Portland, OR (US);

Suhwan Kim, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/07 (2006.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H02J 7/34 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/07 (2013.01); H02J 7/34 (2013.01); H02M 3/1582 (2013.01); H02M 2001/007 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with deriving power output from an energy harvester are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry to identify a plurality of times at which an intermediate voltage of a two stage power conversion circuit corresponds to a voltage reference, and ascertain an amount of time between one of the identified times and another one of the identified times. The one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry may derive a power or current value associated with the second power supply using the amount of time.


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