ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,477, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced power management for wireless communications" was invented by Zhen Yao (San Jose, Calif.), Suraj Sindia (Hillsboro, Calif.), Songnan Yang (San Jose, Calif.), John M. Roman (Hillsboro, Calif.), Robert Paxman (Hillsboro, Calif.) and Walid El Hajj (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced power management. A device may identify one or more first radio frequency waves received from a second device during a time period. The device may determine a first transmission power assoc...