US Patent Issued to Apple on May 6 for "Adaptive wake-up for power conservation in a processor" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,783, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adaptive wake-up for power conservation in a processor" was invented by Ping Zhou (San Diego), Nikolai Schlegel (Danville, Calif.), Navid Ehsan (San Diego), Zhimin Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Gerard D. Jennings (Bavaria, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor can include various processing pipelines that perform different data processing operations, with different pipelines having dedicated logic and memory circuits. A power management circuit can determine when to supply power to various pipelines, including the logic and memory circuits of the variou...