ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,036, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Clock monitoring subsystem for supporting dynamic frequency scaling and clock gating" was invented by Vanamali Bhat (Bangalore, India), Amod Phadke (Bangalore, India), Sina Dena (San Diego), Michael Tipton (Midlothian, Va.), Amit Aneja (Chandler, Ariz.) and Prachin Sheshrao Bhoyar (Nagpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a clock monitoring subsystem of a system-on-chip (SoC) supporting dynamic clock scaling and voltage gating is described. The method includes generating a set of clocks. The method also includes routing a selected one of the set of c...