ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,353, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Power-conscious input/output (I/O) buffer allocation" was invented by Bikrant Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.), Aruni P. Nelson (Folsom, Calif.) and Abdul R. Ismail (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide apparatuses, systems, and methods related to an electronic device that includes first one or more ports to transmit data from the electronic device, and one or more buffers to buffer the data prior to transmission of the data on the ports. The electronic device may further includes a bandwidth management module to: identify a bandw...