US Patent Issued to Intel on May 20 for "Frequency overshoot and voltage droop mitigation apparatus and method" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,696, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Frequency overshoot and voltage droop mitigation apparatus and method" was invented by Praveen Mosalikanti (Portland, Ore.), Nasser A. Kurd (Portland, Ore.) and Alexander Gendler (Kiriat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are described, which prior to an event that could result in frequency overshoot, sends a signal to a voltage regulator or generator requesting a temporary supply voltage and/or current boost. This enables a clocking source, such as a phase locked loop (PLL) to lock fast while not needing any long-term volta...