ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,836, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Peer-influenced enhanced USB power delivery" was invented by Rajaram Regupathy (Bangalore, India), Saranya Gopal (Bangalore, India), Oren Novitzky (Folsom, Calif.), Tomer Savariego (Lavon, Israel) and Vrukesh V. Panse (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Power Delivery is augmented by allowing devices that attach to the USB to include and/or have access to an enhanced device policy manager (eDPM) so that device information such as status, state, or requirements, such as power requirements, may be at least be shared by ...