US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 30 for "Power delivery network degradation detection in a computing device" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,099, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power delivery network degradation detection in a computing device" was invented by Vijayakumar Ashok Dibbad (Bangalore, India), Jeffrey Gemar (San Diego) and Shree Krishna Pandey (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Degradation of a power delivery network (PDN) in a computing device may be detected as part of a self-test during booting of the computing device or a device subsystem. The computing device may be an automotive vehicle control system. A clock signal provided to logic circuitry supplied by the PDN may be modulated, and the modulation frequency may be...