ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,366, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, apparatus and methods for power communications according to a CXL power protocol" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.), Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dimitrios Ziakas (Portland, Ore.) and Rita D. Gupta (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an interface to couple a plurality of devices of a system, the interface to enable communication according to a Compute Express Link (CXL) protocol, and a power management circuit coupled to the inter...