ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,524, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive clock gating for improving wear out-induced duty cycle shift in computer clock network" was invented by Minki Cho (Portland, Ore.), Balkaran Gill (Cornelius, Ore.), Anisur Rahman (Beaverton, Ore.) and Ketul B. Sutaria (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to clock gating. A device may detect that gating of a local clock of a computer core is enabled; detect, based on the detection that the gating is enabled, that a clock gating condition for the local clock is satisfied; and se...