ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,114, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Apparatus, system, and method for intelligent power management of underutilized packet forwarding devices" was invented by Eswaran Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.), Moshiko Nayman (Manalapan, N.J.), Truman Joe (Stanford, Calif.) and Sridatta Bairy (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed computing device capable of intelligent power management of underutilized packet forwarding devices may include (1) a plurality of packet forwarding devices and (2) a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of packet forwarding devices, wherein ...