US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Systems and methods for thermal system management" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,774, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for thermal system management" was invented by Mika Juhani Rintamaeki (Redmond, Wash.), Gregory Allen Nielsen (Kirkland, Wash.), Rajagopal K. Venkatachalam (Sammamish, Wash.), Ajit Justin (Sammamish, Wash.) and Francisco Cantu De La Garza (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of thermal and power control in a computing device includes, at the computing device, initializing a thermal module of the computing device, receiving data at the thermal module from a first component assigned to an interface of ...