ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,723, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Blocking latency events in multi-die architecture" was invented by Inder M. Sodhi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Achmed R. Zahir (Menlo Park, Calif.), Lior Zimet (Kerem Maharal, Israel), Liran Fishel (Raanana, Israel), Omri Flint (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Ami Schwartzman (Kfar-Sava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that pertain to synchronizing power states between integrated circuit dies. A system includes an integrated circuit that includes a plurality of integrated circuit dies coupled together. A particular integrated circuit die may i...