ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,430, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Energy profiler use with battery-powered load device" was invented by Eugenio Carey (Austin, Texas) and Franco Maggi (Asker, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for observing energy consumption of a target device using battery power in a target application are described. These techniques use a development board and associated development software to sense voltage and current for computation of actual power and energy consumption and battery life during product development. The techniques provide application developers with information usefu...