ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,978, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Throttle control method and system for mobile device" was invented by Hung-Yueh Chen (SeongNam-si, South Korea), Byeng Hyun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Shup Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Shih-Hsin Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Chieh Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Pi Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jungwoo Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yu-Lun Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A throttle control method for a mobile device include collecting input data, generating a first set of user experience indices according to the input data,...