ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,779, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Intel Products IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"IP frequency adaptive same-cycle clock gating" was invented by Jianwei Dai (Portland, Ore.) and Jimin Zhang (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive clock gating may provide improved power management of electronic devices. Clock gating may include removing a clock signal to state elements when those state elements are not being used, and the adaptive clock gating may provide improved clock gating for higher-level clock gates operating at increased frequencies. In an example, the adaptive clock gating may enable clock gating for higher...