ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,552, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-processor power management circuit" was invented by Doron Rajwan (Rishon LeZion, Israel), John H. Kelm (Belmont, Calif.) and Michael Bekerman (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a power management processor that may be configured to monitor operation of one or more circuit blocks in the system, and to determine a particular performance state of a set of performance states for one or more power domains in the system based on the monitored operation. The system further includes a performance management circuit that may be conf...