US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 11 for "Hierarchical power estimation and throttling in a processor-based system in an integrated circuit (IC) chip" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,375, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hierarchical power estimation and throttling in a processor-based system in an integrated circuit (IC) chip" was invented by Vinod Chamarty (Campbell, Calif.), 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 as integrated supporting processing devices for the processor. The hierarchical power mana...