US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 27 for "Power throttling mechanism using instruction rate limiting in high power machine-learning ASICs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,870, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Power throttling mechanism using instruction rate limiting in high power machine-learning ASICs" was invented by Houle Gan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thomas James Norrie (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Sizikov (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Georgios Konstadinidis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system contains a machine learning application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and a power supply unit. The power supply unit and the ASIC are configured to be in data communication through dedicated pins on the ASIC and the power supply unit. The power supply ...