US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 24 for "Energy savings through automatic adjustment of link speed" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,677, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Energy savings through automatic adjustment of link speed" was invented by Peter G. Jones (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy savings through adjustment of link speed may be provided. A utilization of a port may be monitored. The port may be configured to run at a plurality of speeds. Based on monitoring the utilization of the port, it may be determined that the utilization of the port has dropped, for a first predetermined time period, below a supported speed lower than a current port speed. Energy consumed by the port may be lowered, in response to de...