ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,771, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Hand-held gaming system and method for configuring a hand-held gaming system" was invented by Suraj M. Varma (Portland, Ore.), Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas) and Manuel Novoa (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for configuring a handheld device based on a state of the handheld device includes an embedded controller (EC), a provided service, user selectable thermal tables (USTT), an Operating System (OS) scheduler, a power plan management (PPM) service and a thermal management service (TMS). The provided service communicates with...