ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,851, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Platform skin temperature management in computer systems" was invented by Mahadevamurty Nemani (San Diego) and Arun Sukheja (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a thermal management system for a computer system. In accordance with one aspect, the disclosure includes generating a transfer function representation of a relationship between a plurality of temperature data sequences and a plurality of dc power consumption data sequences; optimizing a dc power assignment to generate an optimized dc power assignment using the t...