ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,152, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to manage endpoint performance" was invented by Vrukesh Panse (Bangalore, India), Rajaram Regupathy (Bangalore, India), Subrata Banik (Bangalore, India) and Vincent Zimmer (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for managing an endpoint device and associated updates are disclosed. An example apparatus includes circuitry to at least: query the endpoint device circuitry via the interface circuitry to obtain operating data associated with the endpoint device circuitry; determine an operating state of the endpoi...