ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,429, issued on July 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Digital switching activity sensing" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.), Leonid Minz (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Pranjal Chauhan (Fatehpur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clock enable signals are collected and summed. The number of simultaneously enabled clock enable signals can represent switching activity within a system and can be used as an indicator for power management, noise management, etc. of such a system. Digital switching activity sensing include performance of an operation to sum a quantity of open clock gates associated with a plu...