ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,765, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Core status management at power failure" was invented by Soma Bhanutej (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to a power control unit (PCU) of an electronic device. The PCU may be configured to receive a power failure interrupt from an interrupt control block of the electronic device. The power failure interrupt may be generated based on or related to a power failure of the electronic device. In response to receipt of the power failure interrupt, and when a threshold number of processor cores related to the power failure is d...