ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,687, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for achieving deterministic power saving state" was invented by Nagabhushan Reddy (Bangalore, India), Abhinay Gupta (Gwalior, India), Vinithra Janarthanan (Bangalore, India), Santhosh Raghuram Krishnaswamy (Bangalore, India), Pannerkumar Rajagopal (Bangalore, India), Siddharth Selvaraj (Coimbatore, India), Mihir Shah (Folsom, Calif.) and Vishwanath Somayaji (Haralur Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a first circuitry to perform, in response to a first message from an operating system, a first process to...