US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Feb. 17 for "Host controller and bus-attached peripheral device power consumption reduction" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,663, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Host controller and bus-attached peripheral device power consumption reduction" was invented by Raul Gutierrez (Santa Clara, Calif.), Indrani Paul (Austin, Texas), Joseph Scanlon (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aniruddha Dasgupta (Austin, Texas) and Madhusudan Chilakam (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a host controller inferring idleness based on activity generated by a bus-attached peripheral device are disclosed. A host controller detects activity by a first device attached to the host controller...