US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Feb. 24 for "Power management of devices with differentiated power scaling based on relative power benefit estimation" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,993, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power management of devices with differentiated power scaling based on relative power benefit estimation" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco) and Srivatsan Srinivasan (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management system with differentiated power scaling including multiple activity monitors and a differentiated power manager. Each activity monitor counts performance benefit estimation events of each of multiple devices to determine performance benefit estimate values, each being a measure of relative power utilizat...