ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,793, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Control of power use of a device powered by a communication bus and determining sideband signaling voltage level" was invented by Mythili Hegde (Bangalore, India), Shailendra Singh Chauhan (Bengaluru, India), Arunthathi Chandrabose (Bangalore, India), Santhosh Ap (Bangalore, India) and Shashi Kant Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a circuit board comprising a connector in or on the circuit board. The apparatus is to be coupled to a bus via the connector. The apparatus comprises first circuitry to communicate with a...