ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,877, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gating of a mesh clock signal in a processor" was invented by Robin Gupta (Karnataka, India) and Madhusudan Chidambaram (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor may include a mesh network and a clock regulation circuit. The mesh network may include multiple mesh stops to operate based on a mesh clock signal. Each mesh stop may include a bandwidth counter to transmit a bandwidth count in response to a pulse of a synchronization signal. The clock regulation circuit may be to: receive a plurality of bandwidth counts from t...