US Patent Issued to Intel on March 24 for "USB power saving protocol and controller" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,321, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"USB power saving protocol and controller" was invented by Udaya Natarajan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Kannappan Rajaraman (Bangalore, India), Karthi Vadivelu (Folsom, Calif.) and Hem Doshi (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and apparatuses for a USB protocol. The USB system includes a communication interface that is configurable to communicate in a first universal serial bus (USB) communication mode or a second USB communication mode. The USB system also includes a processor configurable to send receiver det...