ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,474, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit configurable to perform adaptive thermal ceiling control in per-functional-block manner, associated main circuit, associated electronic device and associated thermal control method" was invented by Chih-Fu Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Chia Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Bo-Jiun Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Hwei Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shun-Yao Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Wei Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ta-Chang Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tai-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) configurable to perform adapti...