US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Implementing asymmetric processor cores to enable higher operating frequencies in processor-based devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,122, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Implementing asymmetric processor cores to enable higher operating frequencies in processor-based devices" was invented by Raghava Rao Denduluri (Cupertino, Calif.), Conrado Blasco (San Mateo, Calif.) and Nitin Makhija (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementing asymmetric processor cores to enable higher operating frequencies in processor-based devices is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a processor-based device provides a core cluster that comprises a plurality of processor cores and a corresponding phase-locked loop (PLL). Each processor core i...