ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,895, issued on May 26, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Mechanism for power sharing and allocation among device components" was invented by Alon Amid (Haifa, Israel), Aleksandr Frid (San Francisco), Ben Pei En Tsai (Helsinki) and Alon Sadan (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems including a power supply and multiple chips or die, wherein settings may be configured that when applied to a first one of the chips or die configure the first chip or die to associate a power allocation limit with at least a second one of the chips or die, wherein a sum of the power allocation limit and a power cons...