ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,354, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Reducing power consumption in an electronic device" was invented by William Brad Matthews (San Jose, Calif.), Puneet Agarwal (Cupertino, Calif.) and Bruce H. Kwan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device obtains measurement data for one or more device attributes or environmental factors, and compares the measurement data to respective ranges specified for the device attributes or the environmental factors. Different ranges for the device attributes or the environmental factors are associated with different operating regions (OREs) cla...