ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,616, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive control for input current limit setting" was invented by Ziyi Xu (Shenzhen, China), Zheng Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ben Pei En Tsai (Uusimaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies directed to control circuits to adjust input current settings of input current limiter (ICL) circuits are described. One integrated circuit includes a processing core, an ICL circuit, and a control circuit. The ICL circuit has a first input current setting to limit an input current signal provided to the processing core to a current limit. The control circuit c...