ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,938, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for intelligent tuning of overclocking frequency" was invented by Jin Yan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hui Xiong (Portland, Ore.), Jianfang Zhu (Portland, Ore.), Felipe Gonzalez (Folsom, Calif.), Mark MacDonald (Beaverton, Ore.), Daniel Ragland (Sherwood, Ore.), Rodny Rodriguez (Beaverton, Ore.), Matthew Fife (Portland, Ore.), Yifan Li (Beaverton, Ore.) and Kristoffer Fleming (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for intelligent tuning of overclocking frequency are disclosed. An example app...