ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,261, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Neural-network-based power management for neural network loads" was invented by Mustafa Keskin (San Diego), Guoqing Miao (San Diego) and Sameer Wadhwa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for supplying power to a dynamic load, such as a neural network circuit. One example power supply circuit generally includes a voltage regulator circuit and a distribution circuit coupled to one or more outputs of the voltage regulator circuit. The distribution circuit is configured to output different amounts of current based on changes in the dynamic load....