ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,928, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive clock duty cycle controller (DCC) for automotive system-on-a-chip (SOC)" was invented by Keith Alan Bowman (Morrisville, N.C.), Daniel Yingling (Apex, N.C.), Yimai Peng (Cary, N.C.), Amit Aneja (Chandler, Ariz.), Sagar Jariwala (San Marcos, Calif.) and Dipti Ranjan Pal (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an adaptive clock duty cycle controller (DCC) in an automotive system-on-a-chip (SoC). The adaptive clock DCC may include one or more devices, which may be configured to measure and adapt a duty cycle ...