US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 8 for "Computing system power burst limiting" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,251, issued on April 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computing system power burst limiting" was invented by Donghwi Kim (Kirkland, Wash.) and Gregory Allen Nielsen (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling power consumption in a computing system. A burst power limit profile is established that permits consumption of power by the computing system to rise from a current power limit level to one or more elevated power limit levels that are above a thermal design power of the computing system. Upon expiration of the burst power limit profile, a thermal hea...