ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,370, issued on July 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamically influencing bandwidth" was invented by Rajaram Regupathy (Bangalore, India), Saranya Gopal (Bangalore, India), Khaled Almahallawy (Hillsboro, Ore.), Gaurav Singh (Bangalore, India), Abhilash K V (Bangalore, India), Reuven Rozic (Binyamina, Israel) and Paul Crutcher (Welches, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Buses such as USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 buses may allow for device combinations that actually cannot be accommodated on the bus. A monitoring component, e.g., software and/or hardware component, such as an Operating System (OS) policy manager, m...