ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,744, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Subscription-based system-on-chip (SoC) hardware feature enablement" was invented by Vasista Ati (Bangalore, India), Vardhana Mruthyunjaya (Mangalore, India), Kota Subba Rao Sajja (Bengaluru, India) and Ashish Mishra (Bhubaneswar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Core logic features of a system-on-chip (SoC) may be selectively enabled based on a subscription. A subscription request may be provided and transmitted from the computing device containing the SoC to a remote SoC configuration provider system. A response to the subscription request may be received fro...