US Patent Issued to MediaTek on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for operating central-processing units in sleep mode" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,425, issued on April 7, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Apparatus and method for operating central-processing units in sleep mode" was invented by Meng-Ju Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Jr-Ling Guo (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chien-Hao Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Hung-Lin Chou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of CPUs, a CPU scheduler, an idle predictor, and a CPU-idle framework. The CPUs are categorized into a first group and a second group, and a specific CPU is in the first group. When the specific CPU is idle, the CPU scheduler executes an idle task. The...