ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,383, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining power consumption by television" was invented by Andres Hernandez Schafhauser (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprises instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions are configured to cause a computing system to vary at least one light source in a room, the room including the at least one light source and a television; monitor power consumption by the television while varying the at least one light source; and determine an average powe...