ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,274, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intent-driven power management" was invented by Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland), Christopher MacNamara (Limerick, Ireland), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Adrian Hoban (Cratloe, Ireland) and Thijs Metsch (Bruehl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for implementing intent-driven power management are described herein. A system includes: a power monitoring unit to collect real-time telemetry of a processor on a compute node; and a power level controller to: receive a power intent f...