US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Selectively throttling subsystems of battery-powered computing devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,770, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Selectively throttling subsystems of battery-powered computing devices" 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 method is presented for selectively throttling subsystems of a battery-powered computing device. The method comprises determining an amount of power consumed a plurality of rest-of-platform (ROP) subsystems of the battery-powered computing device. A total amount of power consumed by subsystems of a battery-powered computing device is determined. The...