US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Activity smoothener circuit controlling rates of change of localized processing activity in an integrated circuit (IC), and related methods" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,258, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Activity smoothener circuit controlling rates of change of localized processing activity in an integrated circuit (IC), and related methods" was invented by Smitha L. Rapaka (San Jose, Calif.), Derek E. Gladding (Poughquag, N.Y.) and Xiaoling Xu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activity smoothener circuit is provided to control rates of change in processing activity to limit di/dt in activity areas of an IC to mitigate voltage droops or overshoots. Controlling the rate of change of activity prevents or reduces instances o...