ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,359, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Switch based on load current" was invented by MD Altaf Hossain (Portland, Ore.), Ankireddy Nalamalpu (Portland, Ore.), Mahesh K. Kumashikar (Bangalore, India), Dheeraj Subbareddy (Portland, Ore.), Atul Maheshwari (Portland, Ore.) and Mahesh A. Iyer (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide for operating a programmable fabric including multiple programmable elements organized into a number of power domains that utilize a common voltage within the respective power domains. A current sensor senses a cu...