US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 11 for "Processors including power control circuits to reduce a no-load voltage to save power and increase longevity and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,377, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processors including power control circuits to reduce a no-load voltage to save power and increase longevity and related methods" was invented by Mahadevamurty Nemani (San Diego), Adarsh Baraka Ravi (San Jose, Calif.), Nitin Makhija (San Jose, Calif.) and Pradeep Kanapathipillai (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power sources provide power in a range with a maximum supply voltage provided under zero-load current conditions. Power circuits in an IC receive and aggregate indications of load current from processor circuits in processor circuit clusters an...