ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,992, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"System power management in multi-port I/O hybrid systems" was invented by Rajaram Regupathy (Bangalore, India), Abdul R. Ismail (Beaverton, Ore.), Ziv Kabiry (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Abhilash K V (Bangalore, India), Purushotam Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Gaurav Kumar Singh (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a host controller to implement one or more layers of a Universal Serial Bus (USB)-based protocol to provide an interconnect for a plurality of devices. The host controller is to monitor control plane mess...