Patents by Inventor Robert O. Bruckner

Robert O. Bruckner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Merged Power Delivery
    Publication number: 20240063715
    Abstract: A power delivery sub-system included in a computer system employs a primary voltage regulator circuit that generates a primary supply voltage on a primary power supply node. The power delivery sub-system also includes multiple bypass voltage regulator circuits that source corresponding bypass currents to a local power supply nodes in an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes multiple circuit blocks coupled to corresponding ones of the local power supply nodes, and multiple local voltage regulator circuits coupled to the primary power supply node. When a voltage level of a given local power supply node drops below a threshold value, a corresponding local voltage regulator circuit sources a supply current to the given local power supply node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander B. Uan-Zo-li, Shuai Jiang, Jamie L. Langlinais, Per H. Hammarlund, Hans L. Yeager, Victor Zyuban, Sung J. Kim, Wei Xu, Rohan U. Mandrekar, Sambasivan Narayan, Mohamed H. Abu-Rahma, Jaroslav Raszka, Robert O. Bruckner
  • Powering down a computer in response to a thermal event
    Patent number: 7139922
    Abstract: A technique includes receiving an indication of a thermal event in a processor. The processor is part of a computer system. In response to the indication, the processor is powered down, and subsequent to the powering down of the processor, other components of the computer are powered down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert O. Bruckner, Paul S. Durley, William L. Sanderson
  • System for disabling remote wake events on a remote wake line that is coupled to a front panel switch wake line
    Patent number: 6691238
    Abstract: A computer includes two signal lines on which wake events can occur, but the computer's motherboard recognizes wake signals occurring on only one of these signal lines. Therefore, the computer includes a circuit that, in response a wake event on the signal line that is not recognized by the motherboard, delivers a wake signal over the signal line that is recognized by the motherboard unless prevented from delivering the signal by a disable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Brian S. Forbes, Robert O. Bruckner
  • Powering down a computer in response to a thermal event
    Publication number: 20030070104
    Abstract: A technique includes receiving an indication of a thermal event in a processor. The processor is part of a computer system. In response to the indication, the processor is powered down, and subsequent to the powering down of the processor, other components of the computer are powered down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Robert O. Bruckner, Paul S. Durley, William L. Sanderson
  • Automatic system shutdown following processor thermal condition
    Patent number: 6496346
    Abstract: Power to a processor-based system is automatically disabled following a thermal condition detected by the processor. A predetermined thermal condition identified by the processor is coupled to a circuit that causes the power supply to be turned off. The response is substantially simultaneous to the predetermined thermal condition such that the processor and other integrated circuits located on the motherboard of the system may survive the thermal condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Robert O. Bruckner