MUMBAI, India, April 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517019424 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on March 4, for 'functional circuit block harvesting in integrated circuits.'

Inventor(s) include Lisherness, Peter A; and Zimet, Lior.

The application for the patent was published on April 11, under issue no. 15/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An integrated circuit (IC) configurable for use in one of a number of possible platforms is disclosed. The IC includes a number of different functional circuit blocks and a plurality of programmable register. The programmable registers, when programmed, can cause corresponding functional circuit blocks to be...