ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,069, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Dynamic power gating using deterministic interconnect" was invented by Nikhil Sangani (Bangalore, India), Mihir Mody (Bangalore, India), Malav Shah (Bangalore, India), Athavan Arasumani (Pondicherry, Paraguay) and Shailesh Ghotgalkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples disclosed herein relate to deterministically controlling interconnect operations to provide dynamic power gating for a system. In an example, a microcontroller unit (MCU) is provided that includes a group of processing devices, a group of target resources, interconne...