ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,585, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to implement always-on context sensor hubs for processing multiple different types of data inputs" was invented by Ke Han (Shanghai), Mingqiu Sun (Beaverton, Ore.), Dong Wang (Shanghai), Prakash Iyer (Portland, Ore.), Stephan Jourdan (Portland, Ore.) and Andrzej Mialkowski (Pomorskie, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to implement always-on context sensor hubs for processing multiple different types of data inputs are disclosed. An examples apparatus includes a first processor core to implement a host controller...