ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,843, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Dynamic configuration of an oscillator using adaptive voltage and code scaling to follow a target frequency" was invented by Yu-Shu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsin-Chen Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Kuan Hung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jeng-Yi Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs a method of adaptive voltage scaling. The method includes generating a voltage adjustment signal based on a hint from a frequency-locked loop (FLL). The FLL includes an oscillator that generates a clock signal at a clock frequency. The voltage adjustment signal ...