ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,940, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configuration of base clock frequency of processor based on usage parameters" was invented by Vasudevan Srinivasan (Portland, Ore.), Krishnakanth V. Sistla (Portland, Ore.), Corey D. Gough (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ian M. Steiner (Portland, Ore.), Nikhil Gupta (Portland, Ore.), Vivek Garg (Folsom, Calif.), Ankush Varma (Portland, Ore.), Sujal A. Vora (San Jose, Calif.), David P. Lerner (Santa Clara, Calif.), Joseph M. Sullivan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nagasubramanian Gurumoorthy (Portland, Ore.), William J. Bowhill (Framingham, Mass.), Venkatesh Ramamurthy (Portland, Ore.), Chris MacNamara (Limerick, Ireland), Jo...