US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 15 for "Processors having core control circuits to control core transitions between low power modes and related methods" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,029, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processors having core control circuits to control core transitions between low power modes and related methods" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Choudhary (Tonk, India), Srinivas Rao Lengamaneni (Hyderabad, India), Maulik Shah (Hyderabad, India), Nirav Narendra Desai (Hyderabad, India) and Chandan Agarwalla (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core circuit in a processor executes instructions in an operating mode and, when the core circuit is idle, transitions to a low-power mode to reduce power consumption. Low power modes include a clock-gated mode, in which ...