ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,964, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for bi-directional control of computing unit frequency" was invented by Jianwei Dai (Portland, Ore.), Jianfang Zhu (Portland, Ore.), Ivan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Deepak Samuel Kirubakaran (Hillsboro, Ore.), Rajshree Chabukswar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard Winterton (Provo, Utah) and Houfei Chen (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for bi-directional control of computing unit frequency are disclosed. An example apparatus to control a frequency of a computing unit includes instructions, memory in the appa...