ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,139, issued on April 7, was assigned to Trident IoT LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for estimating elapsed power consumption of electronic devices" was invented by Brandon Gruber (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system, method and apparatus are described for estimating the elapsed power consumption of an electronic device. A plurality of power consumption rates is associated with a plurality of operating states, respectively, of one or more electronic components of an electronic device. As the electronic device operates over the plurality of operating states, a partial battery consumpt...