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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:
Nov. 25, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2023
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Luke L. Jenkins, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

John S. Werner, Fishkill, NY (US);

Arkadiy O. Tsfasman, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/28 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/28 (2013.01); G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments herein describe a switchable redundant voltage regulator (referred to herein as a redundant phase) that can be attached to multiple different power domains. Instead of providing a redundant phase for every load or voltage domain in a computing system, the embodiments herein describe sharing redundant phases between voltage domains. Thus, if a primary phase serving any one of the phase fails, the switch can be controlled to connect the redundant phase to the corresponding voltage domain. In this manner, the redundant phase is a shared phase for a plurality of voltage domains.


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