ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,143, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Power limits for virtual partitions in a processor" was invented by Adwait Purandare (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ian Steiner (Portland, Ore.), Vasudevan Srinivasan (Portland, Ore.), Ankush Varma (Portland, Ore.), Nikhil Gupta (Portland, Ore.) and Stanley Chen (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor includes multiple processing engines and a power control unit. The power control unit is to receive a mapping of multiple virtual partitions to sets of the processing engines, and in response to a receipt of the mapping of multiple of ...