ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,114, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Power management on a vehicle" was invented by Gido Van Wijk (Coventry, Great Britain), Devender Sawhney (Coventry, Great Britain) and Rudolf Streif (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller can include a hypervisor for controlling a power state of the vehicle controller, the vehicle controller comprising at least two virtual machines hosted on the vehicle controller. The hypervisor is configured to: receive an active status indication from at least one virtual machine; determine, in dependence on the active...