ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,987, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Managing power states of aggregated links of a network device" was invented by Jonathan C. Barth (Collegeville, Pa.), Srihari Ramachandra Sangli (Bengaluru, India) and Vyasraj Satyanarayana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device may generate a first protocol data unit (PDU) identifying a request to transition from a power on state to a power sleep state, and may provide the first PDU to a second network device. The first network device may receive a second PDU identifying a link of the second network de...