ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,806, issued on March 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Power-efficient application lifecycle" was invented by Arthur Zwiegincew (Medina, Wash.), Jeffrey Mark Davis (Woodinville, Wash.) and Sreekar Choudhary (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an operating system of a computing system determines, by an application instance manager of the operating system, that a first instance corresponding to a first application is to be activated according to an instance database managed by the operating system, where the first application includes several application components...