ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,758, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Active state power management controls" was invented by Wen-Bin Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chao-Wen Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Cheng Su (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an expansion slot, a peripheral device connected to the expansion slot, and a processor communicatively coupled to the expansion slot. The processor is to determine that a compatibility of the peripheral device with active state power management (ASPM) is unknown, provide a notification...