ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,984, issued on April 29, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Systems, devices and methods for power management and power estimation" was invented by Surya Kiran Musunuri (Bangalore, India) and Eswar Goda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microcontroller includes a plurality of (Intellectual Property) IP blocks each configured to perform one or more functions; a hardware power estimator circuit for estimating power of the microcontroller, the hardware power estimator including a hardware artificial neural network including a plurality of interconnected nodes arranged in one or more stages, w...