ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,773, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Performance control of a device with a power metering unit (PMU)" was invented by Young deok Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Pyeongwoo Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inventive aspects include a device including storage media. The device includes a PMU, and a controller communicatively coupled to the PMU. The PMU determines that an operating power of the device exceeds a threshold, and transmits a signal to the controller to trigger a power reduction operation. The controller throttles on...