ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,736, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Configurable power monitoring system for electronic devices" was invented by Linfei Guo (South San Francisco, Calif.), Mahesh Hooli (San Jose, Calif.), Sagnik Kar (San Jose, Calif.) and Avinash Hosamalangi Mahadeva (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable power monitoring system for electronic devices is described herein. In an example, a device can include a first circuit that can receive a first voltage signal from a voltage bus and output a second voltage signal that is lower than the first voltage signal. An electronic system can be ...