ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,016, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Communication of thermal states for chiplets" was invented by Prashanth Kumar Kakkireni (Bengaluru, India), Tejas Grandhi (Bangalore, India), Ramacharan Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.) and Christophe Avoinne (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication of thermal states is described for chiplets. An example includes a chiplet and a plurality of chiplet thermal sensors thermally coupled to the chiplet and configured to generate thermal signals in response to a temperature of the chiplet. A chiplet thermal combiner is coupled to the thermal sensors and confi...