ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,564, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and systems for hardware control of processor performance levels" was invented by Eliezer Weissmann (Haifa, Israel), Efraim Rotem (Haifa, Israel), Doron Rajwan (Rishon le-Zion, Israel), Hisham Abu Salah (Majdal shams, Israel), Ariel Gur (Atlit, Israel), Guy M. Therien (Beaverton, Ore.) and Russell J. Fenger (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to hardware control of processor performance levels are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of logical processing el...