ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,140, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Per-lane power management of bus interconnects" was invented by Travis T. Schluessler (Berthoud, Colo.), Huimin Chen (Beaverton, Ore.), Selvakumar Panneer (Portland, Ore.) and Zhengmin Li (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a request for a transfer of data on a bus of a computing device; determining a direction for the transfer, at least in part based on the request; determining a quantity of data for the transfer, at least in part based on the request; determining a power state for a lane of the bus, at least in part ...