ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,358, issued on March 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Efficient system on chip power delivery with adaptive voltage headroom control" was invented by Alexander Lyakhov (Portland, Ore.), Piyush Abhay Hatolkar (Hillsboro, Ore.), Anant Shankar Deval (Redmond, Wash.) and Juan Pablo Munoz Constantine (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to efficient system on chip (SoC) power delivery with adaptive voltage headroom control are described. A method for adaptively controlling voltage headroom for a system includes, in response to either a detection of a headroom...