ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,030, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Programmable system TDP with ASIC power capping" was invented by Robert Ashby Armistead III (Los Altos, Calif.), Shuai Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Binayak Roy (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thomas James Norrie (San Jose, Calif.) and Houle Gan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable thermal dissipation power (TDP) system with integrated circuits is provided. The programmable TDP system includes a software interface, a monitoring circuit, and a controller circuit. The monitoring circuit may provide for the instantaneous input power supplied to...