ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,440, issued on March 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for companion-assisted thermal / power management" was invented by Sumeet Kumar Lnu (San Jose, Calif.), Rahul Srivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.), Siddharth Ray (Cupertino, Calif.), Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Shivank Nayak (Milpitas, Calif.), Alireza Kalantari (San Diego), Anupama Padminidevi Karthikeyan Nair (Milpitas, Calif.) and Hazim Shafi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for companion-assisted thermal or power management may include a first device that may transm...