ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,436, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Yuta Tagami (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiro Takase (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuichiro Seto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus including a plurality of components, includes: a power circuit unit capable of switching between supplying and stopping operating power to the plurality of components; a first component of the plurality of components, the first component being related to external power supply, and being supplied with operating power direc...