ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,769, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, apparatus and method for dynamic thermal distribution of a system on chip" was invented by Rolf Kuehnis (Portland, Ore.), Matthew Long (Portland, Ore.) and Julien Sebot (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a processor includes: a first plurality of intellectual property (IP) circuits to execute operations; and a second plurality of integrated voltage regulators, where the second plurality of integrated voltage regulators are oversubscribed with respect to the first plurality of IP circuits. Other embodiments are described an...