ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,243, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power consumption management method and apparatus" was invented by Yanjie Guan (Shenzhen, China), Yilong Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Kaitian Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power consumption management method. Resources such as computing resources or communication resources in the computer system include a first resource area and a second resource area. In addition, a resource provided in the first resource area includes a computing resource or a communication resource, and is used to support a workload in the first resource are...