ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,073, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Predictable battery power management apparatus and method" was invented by Zhongsheng Wang (Portland, Ore.), Chee Lim Nge (Beaverton, Ore.), Sze Ling Yeap (Hillsboro, Ore.), Efraim Rotem (Haifa, Israel), James Hermerding II (Vancouver, Wash.) and Ashraf Wadaa (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware and/or software (e.g., a controller and/or firmware or software) that monitors a remaining capacity of a battery and adjusts a continuum of system performance settings ranging from best performance to best energy efficiency. The controller starts w...