ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,330, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive local throttle management of processing circuits based on detected states in an integrated circuit (IC) chip" was invented by Sagar Koorapati (Austin, Texas) and Manu Gulati (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A throttle management circuit is configured to receive throttle request(s) from at least one state detection circuit, generate and store a throttle recommendation in each clock cycle based on the received throttle request(s), and generate a throttle control signal to throttle activity of processing circuits based on a recent and stored thr...