ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,582, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power state prediction using machine learning circuitry" was invented by Laurent F. Chaouat (Jonestown, Texas), Rohit Gangrade (San Jose, Calif.), Safwat Mostafa Noor (Austin, Texas), Angel E. Socarras (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Harsh Chakhaiyar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to performing a corrective action in response to certain detected conditions. In disclosed embodiments, clock circuitry is configured to provide a clock signal to processor circuitry. In some embodiments, power monitor circuitry is configured to gen...