ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,764, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Power control apparatus and method" was invented by Masanori Takada (Tokyo) and Akira Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When receiving power requirement for power control and performing power control of a target device in accordance with the received power requirement, based on power consumption for a performance of each component of the target device and a device configuration of the target device, power saving level management information is created, which respectively defines the performance of each component at each power saving level asso...