ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,511, issued on June 24, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power management using voltage islands on programmable logic devices" was invented by Mahesh K. Kumashikar (Bangalore, India), Ankireddy Nalamalpu (Portland, Ore.), Md Altaf Hossain (Portland, Ore.), Dheeraj Subbareddy (Portland, Ore.), Atul Maheshwari (Portland, Ore.), Yuet Li (Fremont, Calif.) and Mahesh A. Iyer (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide efficient electric power consumption of programmable logic devices based on providing different voltage levels to different portions (e.g., voltag...