ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,768, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Selection of power supply for a host system" was invented by Aruni P. Nelson (Folsom, Calif.), Udaya Natarajan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Kannappan Rajaraman (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a host system for selecting a power supply includes a processor, a bus interface to connect to a peripheral device, and a power controller. The power controller may be to: determine whether the processor has entered a reduced power mode; determine, via one or more bus messages, whether charging is to be performed for a battery of the...