ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,277, issued on June 2, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit that mitigates inductive-induced voltage overshoot" was invented by Darshan Gandhi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Manish K. Shah (Austin, Texas), Raghu Prabhakar (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Frederick Grohoski (Bee Cave, Texas), Youngmoon Choi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Jinuk Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) includes an array of compute units and control circuitry for mitigating supply voltage overshoot. Each compute unit contributes to an aggregate time rate of change of current drawn by the IC when ...