US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "System and method for reducing power consumption" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,967, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for reducing power consumption" was invented by Uday S. Hegde (Issaqah, Wash.) and Prateek Agrawal (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing power consumption of a first wireless communication device is described. A charge level of a battery associated with the first wireless communication device is monitored. A wireless communication session between the first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device is maintained. Based at least in part on the charge level of the ba...