ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,913, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"S5 power state control action" was invented by Irwan Halim (Spring, Texas), Khoa Huynh (Spring, Texas) and Christoph Graham (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system, method, and storage medium comprising a plurality of sensors communicatively coupled to a microcontrol unit wherein the MCU operates while the system is in an S5 power state. While in the S5 power state, the MCU receives a system-related datum from one of the plurality of sensors. The MCU d...