ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,551, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamically reconfiguring an out-of-order processing circuit in a processing unit to process instructions in order based on power consumption of a workload" was invented by Darshan Kumar Nandanwar (Bangalore, India) and Kartik Gunvantbhai Desai (Savarkundla, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects disclosed include dynamically reconfiguring an out-of-order processing circuit in a processing unit to process instructions in order based on a performance/power consumption measurement. The processing unit includes an in-order processing circuit which decodes a plural...