ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,266, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Throttling of components using priority ordering" was invented by Avinash Ananthakrishnan (Portland, Ore.) and Jeremy Shrall (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided, where the apparatus includes a plurality of components, wherein an individual component has a corresponding throttling priority of a plurality of throttling priorities. The apparatus further includes logic to selectively throttle one or more of the plurality of components. In an example, an order in which the one or more of the plurality of components are to be thr...