ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,898, issued on May 26, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technology to detect power consumption and low power states in external sink devices to enhance system performance and improve user experiences" was invented by Venkataramani Gopalakrishnan (Folsom, Calif.), Chuen Ming Tan (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Divagar Mohandass (Pondicherry, India), Dmitriy Berchanskiy (Roseville, Calif.), Nirmala Bailur (Bangalore, India), Timothy Smith (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) and Rajaram Regupathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that allocates a portion of opera...