ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,968, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Core targeting in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems" was invented by Michael Cieslak (Los Angeles), Jiayao Yu (Venice, Calif.), Kai Chen (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Farnaz Azmoodeh (Venice, Calif.), Michael David Marr (Monroe, Calif.), Jun Huang (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Zahra Ferdowsi (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for throttling (i.e., adjusting) the workload of an application (e.g., number of task requests) in order to improve processor core usage within a heterogeneous multiproc...