US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Memory hierarchy power management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,774, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Memory hierarchy power management" was invented by John G. Dorsey (San Francisco), Bryan R. Hinch (Campbell, Calif.), Ronit Banerjee (Mountain View, Calif.) and Karthic A. Palaniappan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a system, apparatus, method, and computer program product for memory hierarchy power management. Some embodiments include a performance controller that balances memory hierarchy power and compute power to maintain package-level power efficiency of a systems-on-a-chip (SoC)-memory package. The performance c...