ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,141, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adjustable clock and power gating control" was invented by Michael Bekerman (Los Gatos, Calif.), Matthew R. Johnson (Belmont, Calif.), Lior Zimet (Kerem Maharal, Israel) and Rohit K. Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjustable clock and power gating control is facilitated hereby. In aspects, a power management circuit is coupled to a memory controller circuit that is coupled to a memory resource circuit and to a plurality of heterogeneous client circuits configured to access the memory resource circuit via the memory controller circuit...