ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,507, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, devices and methods for efficiently estimating wireless modem power consumption" was invented by Mythili Hegde (Bangalore, India) and David Graham (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for estimating a total estimated power consumption of a wireless modem. The power estimation may include determining a static power consumption estimate based on configuration parameters of modem subcomponents of a wireless modem. The power estimation may also include determining a dynamic power consu...