ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,114, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Current control for a multicore processor" was invented by Alexander Gendler (Kiriat Motzkin, Israel), Efraim Rotem (Haifa, Israel), Nir Rosenzweig (Givat Ella, Israel), Krishnakanth V. Sistla (Portland, Ore.), Ashish V. Choubal (Austin, Texas) and Ankush Varma (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with current control for a multicore processor are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multicore processor may include a plurality of analog current comparators, each analog current comparator to measure cu...