ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,274, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Data-type-aware clock-gating" was invented by Joshua Wayne Bowman (Austin, Texas), Thomas A. Volpe (Austin, Texas), Sundeep Amirineni (Austin, Texas), Nishith Desai (Austin, Texas) and Ron Diamant (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce power consumption, data bits or a portion of a data register that is not expected to toggle frequently can be grouped together, and be clock-gated independently from the rest of the data register. The grouping of the data bits can be determined based on the data types of the workload being operated on. F...