ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,292, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Processor-based system employing configurable local frequency throttling management to manage power demand consumption, and related methods" was invented by Smitha L. Rapaka (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoling Xu (Cuppertino, Calif.), Venkatesh Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Sunil K Vemula (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Derek E. Gladding (Poughquag, N.Y.) and Cesar Maldonado (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processor-based systems employing configurable local frequency throttling management to manage power demand consumption, and ...