ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,219, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Power state control method and data storage system" was invented by Hung-Sheng Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wei-Kuo Shih (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power state control method and a data storage system are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a connection between a host system and a storage device; detecting a data access performance of the storage device through the connection; and instructing the storage device to operate at one of a plurality of power states of a normal work state according to the data access p...