ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,537, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Voltage-to-frequency switching implementation for increased datacenter quality" was invented by Kevin Wilder (Wilmette, Ill.), Badarish Colathur Arvind (San Jose, Calif.) and Jinal Shah (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Voltage-Frequency domain switching circuits that include multiple stages each configured to receive a throttle code, each of the stages providing a fast-propagation path for the throttle code to a digitally controlled oscillator, and a frequency locked loop configured to (a) generate a code to the digitally controlled osci...