ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,119, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Thermal-aware task scheduling" was invented by Ya-Ting Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih Fu Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tai Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shun-Yao Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta-Chang Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shengquan Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Chia Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-processor system performs thermal-aware task scheduling and task migration. Based on temperature measurements, the system determines one or more thermal conditions of each processor. The thermal conditions include a pr...