ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,595, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed thermal management architecture" was invented by Louis Louie (San Diego), Ronald Alton (Oceanside, Calif.), Sumarlin William (San Diego) and Vinayak Nana Mehetre (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal management aspects include a serial databus; a central processing unit (CPU); a graphics processing unit (GPU); a neural signal processor (NSP); an always on subsystem (AOSS); the serial databus, the CPU, the GPU, the NSP and the AOSS are implemented on a system on a chip; wherein the CPU includes a first plurality of thermal sensors and a fi...