ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,333, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Power states based on wireless chargers" was invented by Isaac Lagnado (Spring, Texas), Jerome Arnaud Antoine Bove (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chih-Ping Tom Chung (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a wireless charger. In some examples, the electronic device includes a controller to cause the electronic device to enter a first power state in response to determining that a remote device is placed on the wireless charger. In some e...