ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,426, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Control of power state in computer processor" was invented by Sagar C. Pawar (Karnataka, India), Pannerkumar Rajagopal (Karnataka, India), Raghavendra Nagaraj (Karnataka, India), Ovais F. Pir (Srinagar, India) and Prakash Pillai (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor may include processing circuits to execute instructions. The processor may also include at least one circuit to: detect a management mode trigger event during operation of the processor in a first power state, the management mode trigger event to initiate a...