ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,259, issued on May 20, was assigned to digitalVAR Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).
"Power management system" was invented by Connor McMillan (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus in which a power management system automatically maintains a USB powered off while the booting of a computing device is incomplete and only supplies power to the USB hub after the OS boot has completed. This is accomplished by the power management system communicating with the computing device receiving a signal indicating the status of the OS boot. Based on the received signal, the power management system determines whe...