ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,319, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Power supply optimization based on interface card power enable signaling" was invented by Shailendra Singh Chauhan (Bengaluru, India) and Arunthathi Chandrabose (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface card includes a circuit board, a device mounted on the circuit board, and a PMIC mounted on the circuit board. The PMIC includes a PMIC processor communicatively coupled to a host processor of a host system. The PMIC processor is configured to receive an input voltage signal from a power supply that is external to the interface card. The PM...