ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,895, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power grid allocation in extended reality (XR) devices" was invented by Subbarao Lanka (Bangalore, India), Chethan Devaraj (Bangalore, India) and Shruti Hanumanthaiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes multiple core devices, each core device configured to operate at multiple voltage levels. The apparatus also includes a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) comprising multiple power supplies, each power supply corresponding to one of the voltage levels. A first of the power supplies corresponds to a first voltage level selecti...