US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Functional circuit block harvesting in computer systems" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,191, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Functional circuit block harvesting in computer systems" was invented by Peter A. Lisherness (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Lior Zimet (Kerem Maharal, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a set of processing blocks and a set of programmable registers. A given one of the programmable registers corresponds to at least one of the processing blocks. The computer system is configured to receive a harvesting command that writes a disable value to a group of the programmable registers corresponding to ...