US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Protocol state aware power management" (Irish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,916, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Protocol state aware power management" was invented by Liang Ma (Shannon, Ireland), Ping Yu (Shanghai), Fan Zhang (Limerick, Ireland), Weigang Li (Shanghai), Xin Zeng (Shanghai) and Xiao Long Ye (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for implementing protocol state aware power management are described herein. A network interface device for implementing protocol state aware power management includes circuitry to provide a direct memory access interface; medium access control (MAC) circuitry to interface with a network; and control...