ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,872, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intermittently optimized turbo boost technology" was invented by Naoki Matsumura (San Jose, Calif.), Merwin Brown (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Tod Schiff (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a condition with respect to a system including a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is to include a turbo operation mode and intermittently or regularly shortens a repeated active duration of the turbo operation mode in response to the condition. In one example, intermittently sh...