US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 18 for "Merging of power events related to estimated power consumption of different devices in a hierarchical power management system in an integrated circuit (IC) chip to perform power throttling" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,988, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Merging of power events related to estimated power consumption of different devices in a hierarchical power management system in an integrated circuit (IC) chip to perform power throttling" was invented by Sagar Koorapati (Austin, Texas) and Alon Naveh (Corte Madera, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hierarchical power estimation and throttling in a processor-based system in an integrated circuit (IC) chip, and related power management and power throttling methods are disclosed. The IC chip includes a processor as well integrated supporting processing devices for...