ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,507, issued on June 2, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Power management for virtual network functions or containerized network functions" was invented by Huamin Chen (Westford, Mass.), Yuval Lifshitz (Kfar HaOranim, Israel) and Douglas Smithy (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, by a processing device, an intended level of power consumption associated with a network function; allocating, in view of the intended level of power consumption, a network device to the network function; allocating, in view of the intended level of power consumption, a processor to the network function; an...