ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,780, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Dynamic pluggable module power management" was invented by Sheau Shian Wong (Singapore), Rupal Bhavin Shah (Roseville, Calif.), David A. Kumpf (Rocklin, Calif.) and Rachel Callison (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may comprise a number of ports configured to removably receive pluggable modules, such as optical transceivers. The electronic device may also comprise processing circuitry comprising a power management engine. The power management engine may be configured to monitor system properties of...