US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Silicon usage metering to provide silicon-as-a-service" (American, Polish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,547, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Silicon usage metering to provide silicon-as-a-service" was invented by Vasudevan Srinivasan (Portland, Ore.), Knut Grimsrud (Forest Grove, Ore.), Johan Van De Groenendaal (Portland, Ore.), Mariusz Oriol (Gdynia, Poland), Nishi Ahuja (Portland, Ore.), Shen Zhou (Shanghai), Samantha Alt (Portland, Ore.), Katalin Bartfai-Walcott (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Arkadiusz Berent (Tuchom, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement software defined silicon feature configura...