US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Systems and methods for transitioning computing devices between operating states" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,994, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for transitioning computing devices between operating states" was invented by Arun Kannan (Mountain View, Calif.), Manjunath M. Venkatesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Venu M. Duggineni (Cupertino, Calif.), Alhad A. Palkar (Cupertino, Calif.), Kaushik Raghunath (Cupertino, Calif.), David M. Jun (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex Tukh (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yakov Ben-Zaken (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to transition a computing system from a first state to a second state is received, and a respective manifest is compiled for eac...