ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,345, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for power management in compute circuits" was invented by Sreedhar Ravipalli (Cupertino, Calif.), Mahesh Kumashikar (Bangalore, India), Md Altaf Hossain (Portland, Ore.) and Ankireddy Nalamalpu (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit system includes an accelerator circuit and a compute circuit. The accelerator circuit generates a request in response to receiving packets of data. The accelerator circuit generates an indication of a low power state based on a reduced number of the packets of data being received. The compute circuit per...