ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,955, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing power consumption in data processing systems" was invented by Rishi Mukherjee (Bangalore, India) and Sudhir Vittal Shetty (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing power consumption in data processing systems are disclosed. The power consumption in the data processing systems may be managed by obtaining power limits for the data processing systems. The power limits may be determined by computing the power limits from regularly updated parameters of the data processing systems. The data processing systems ma...