ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,546, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Power management interface for multiple software requestors" was invented by Doron Rajwan (Rishon LeZion, Israel), John H. Kelm (Belmont, Calif.), Josh P. de Cesare (Campbell, Calif.), Karl D. Wulcan (San Diego) and Michael Bekerman (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a control circuit, configured to transition a plurality of power domains into selected performance states, and a set of state request registers. A state request register may include fields that are associated with respective power domains. The apparatus may furth...