US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Monitoring a software-based activity monitor that configures the throttling of a hardware-based activity monitor" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,227, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Monitoring a software-based activity monitor that configures the throttling of a hardware-based activity monitor" was invented by Thomas A. Volpe (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watchdog timer may be implemented to detect whether a software-based activity monitor is alive. A software-based activity monitor may manage throttling performed by a hardware-based activity monitor. The software-based activity monitor may reset the watchdog timer in the hardware-based activity monitor within a period of time to indicate that the software-based activi...