ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,211, issued on June 3, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Component-level instrument power management" was invented by Craig Palmer (Woodbine, Md.), Wei Chen (Potomac, Md.) and Nick Ghaemi (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Component-level, scene-based power management in a test, monitoring, or measurement instrument or system is provided by identifying one or more controllable components; determining a power consumption of the identified one or more controllable components; generating a system model based, at least in part, on the determined power consumption, where the system model includes one or...