ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,030, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Current and clock frequency management" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.), Leonid Minz (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Ekram H. Bhuiyan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current sensing circuitry and clock management circuitry provide current and clock frequency management. In one example, an apparatus can include a voltage regulator, current sensing circuitry configured to: detect a current associated with the voltage regulator of a system-on-chip (SoC), and determine when the current transitions from a first current to a second cu...