ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,229, issued on May 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Adaptive voltage scaling using temperature and performance sensors" was invented by Jose Luis Flores (Richardson, Texas), Anthony Martin Hill (Dallas) and Francisco Adolfo Cano (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive voltage scaling technique includes using a temperature sensor arranged on a semiconductor die to determine a current die temperature of the semiconductor die, using a performance sensor arranged on a semiconductor die to determine a current performance metric of the semiconductor die, determining whether the current performance...