ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,661, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Link power management protocol for connected network devices" was invented by Jonathan C. Barth (Collegeville, Pa.), Srihari Ramachandra Sangli (Bengaluru, India), Vyasraj Satyanarayana (Bangalore, India) and Sandip Kumar Ghosh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device may provide a link discovery message to a second network device, and may identify a link based on the link discovery message. The first network device may provide, to the second network device, a first control channel message that identifies t...