ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,172, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Apparatus, system, and method for selectively configuring line cards to conserve power in network fabrics" was invented by Muhammad Sagarwala (Los Gatos, Calif.), John Kenney (Groton, Mass.), Saikat Sanyal (Bangalore, India) and Gurmeet Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for selectively configuring line cards to conserve power and/or costs of goods in network fabrics may include a first line card and a second line card. In this example, the second line card may include (1) a set of connectors capable of c...