ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,361, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Active state power optimization for high-speed serial input/output interfaces" was invented by Per E. Fornberg (Portland, Ore.), Anoop Karunan (Bangalore, India), Aruna Kumar L S (Bangalore, India), Sunil Kumar CR (Bangalore, India) and Sleiman Bou-Sleiman (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising transmission circuitry to communicate first data to receiver circuitry over a serial communication link during an active state of the serial communication link; and power adjustment circuitry to adjust a power level of the transmission circ...