ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,695, issued on April 29, was assigned to Groq Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Energy provisioning" was invented by James David Sproch (Monte Sereno, Calif.) and Dinesh Maheshwari (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of a regulator circuit for providing power to a load device having a first power demand profile over time. The regulator circuit comprises a regulator and an energy storage device coupled to the regulator and the load device. The regulator circuit is configured to scavenge provided energy that is available beyond the first power demand profile. Further, the regulator circuit is configured ...