ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,458, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Power management of edge devices to maintain minimum temperature compliance" was invented by Rishi Mukherjee (Bangalore, India), Sivakumar Swamy (Bangalore, India) and Ravishankar K N (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system monitors an edge device to detect whether a current temperature of the edge device is below a minimum system temperature threshold. If the current temperature is below the minimum system temperature threshold, then the system determines whether the edge device includes a heater. If a current syste...