ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,387, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low-latency control interface and protocol" was invented by Gordon Lee (Gilbert, Ariz.), Vijayakumar Ashok Dibbad (Bangalore, India), Louis Louie (San Diego), Chris Rosolowski (Encinitas, Calif.), Jennifer Hagstrom (San Diego), Todd Robert Sutton (Del Mar, Calif.) and Orlando Santiago (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to power management of a system-on-chip (SoC) and techniques of optimizing system performance and power management through power limits coordination via a low latency bus interface that provides a flexible prot...