ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,884, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"User-configurable adaptive voltage scaling (AVS)" was invented by Scott A Smith (Taylor, Texas) and Christian Lutkemeyer (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes electronic circuitry, multiple sensors, and an Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) circuit. The electronic circuitry is configured to be powered by one or more supply voltages. The multiple sensors are configured to measure values affected by the one or more supply voltages, and to produce multiple sensor outputs. The AVS circuit is configured to adaptively set the...