ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,659, issued on April 21, was assigned to ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method and system for detecting application program version with abnormal power consumption" was invented by Chin-Hao Chang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Shih-Chieh Liao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Tzu-Hung Chuang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Shih-Chuan Chiu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yi-Nan Lee (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for detecting an application program version with abnormal power consumption are provided. The method includes the following. A power consumption database of multiple versions of a target application i...