US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Hardware performance information for power management" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,037, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Hardware performance information for power management" was invented by Angel E. Socarras (Orlando, Fla.), Ben D. Jarrett (Austin, Texas), Jason P. Jane (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Thomas B. Pringle (Winter Park, Fla.), Andrea Gianarro (London) and Jackson Dsouza (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to power management in a processing circuit that includes a set of functional blocks and performance counter registers configured to store utilization values indicative of utilization of associated ones of the set of functional bl...