ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,059, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for controlling computing performance for power-constrained multi-processor computing systems" was invented by Thomas E. Dewey (Menlo Park, Calif.), Michael Irwin (Menlo Park, Calif.), Simon Lai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sau Yan Keith Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of controlling power consumption in a multi-processor computing device comprises determining a first value for a first power setting associated with a first processor based on a sound level generated by the multi-processor computing d...