ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,272, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processor cluster configured to maximize utilization of a processor core electrically coupled directly to a power source and related methods" was invented by Rajesh Arimilli (Bangalore, India), Bharat Kumar Rangarajan (Bangalore, India), Raashid Moin Shaikh (Bangalore, India), Venkata Biswanath Devarasetty (Hyderabad, India), Ramakrishna Gottimukkula (Hyderabad, India) and Rohit Singh (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor cluster includes a first processor core electrically coupled directly to a power rail and a second processor core coupled to t...