US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,913, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit" was invented by Patrick Y. Law (Cupertino, Calif.), Robert A. Drebin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Keith Cox (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and James S. Ismail (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes power management control that controls a duty cycle of a processor to manage power. The duty cycle may be the amount of time that the processor is powered on as a percentage of the total time. By frequently powering up and powering down the processor during a period of time...