ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,473, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processor clock scaling technique" was invented by Sreedhar Narayanaswamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jun Xu (Foster City, Calif.), Manish Saini (Cupertino, Calif.), Krishna Sitaraman (Campbell, Calif.) and Aleksandr Frid (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to scale processor clocks. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to scale one or more clocks of one or more cores based, at least in part, on a proximity of the one or more cores to each other."

The patent was filed on March 6, 2024, under Applicatio...