ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,949, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing power states of an information handling system" was invented by Cheng-Hung Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Isaac Qin Wang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing power states of an IHS, including: identifying, at a first time, an output of a first sensor, a first output of a second sensor, and a second output of the second sensor, the first sensor and the second sensor detecting a presence of one or more magnetic fields; determining, based on the output of the first, second, and the third sensors, that a power state of the information han...