ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,775, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Power optimized timer module for processors" was invented by Anthony Giardina (Colfax, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timer intellectual property (IP) block that automatically determines an interval on which a processor circuitry is to be woken up to service periodic events, when it is given details about the requirements for those events (e.g., approximately how often they must occur, if it's important that they not happen too frequently or too infrequently, if the total number of events over a long average is important, etc.). For each periodic e...