ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,586, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Quality-of-service-based fabric power management" was invented by Doron Rajwan (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Alexander Gendler (Kiriat Ata, Israel), Daniel U. Becker (San Jose, Calif.), Saher Odeh (Nazareth, Israel), Ilya Granovsky (Kiryat Tivon, Israel) and Lior Zimet (Kerem Maharal, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to selective rate limiting and reducing clock frequency of fabric circuitry in response to certain power management events. Disclosed techniques may advantageously allow power management circuitry to reduce or avoid n...