ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,095, issued on March 17, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for dynamically freezing information handling system ports to minimize power consumed by idle plug and play devices" was invented by Malathi Ramakrishnan (Tamil Nadu, India), Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas) and Manikandan Radhakrishnan (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An idle plug and play port freezing and carbon dioxide (CO2) minimizing system executing on an information handling system may comprise a plug and play device controller, processor, or embedded controller executing code instructions of the idle plug and...