ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,652, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Power attribution and throttling on mobile devices" was invented by Tejas Bahulkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dunxu Hu (Venice, Calif.), Yizhou Ma (Los Angeles), Jonah Hephzibah Okike (Los Angeles), John James Robertson (Los Angeles) and Richard Zhuang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for power and temperature attribution on mobile devices. Example methods include granting a request for a resource, estimating an energy usage used by the resource for the application, where the estimating is based on a resource ut...