ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,224, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power management scheme for wireless devices" was invented by Megha Sehgal (Panchkula, India) and Vishwas Saxena (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device is configured to transition between power states to reduce power usage. The wireless communication device includes a power source, a first transmitter, a second transmitter, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to transfer data wirelessly to a requesting client device via the first transmitter during a first power state, and in ...