ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,840, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).
"Estimating and improving residual carbon debt in cloud-based applications" was invented by Eitan Hadar (Nesher, Israel) and Benny Rochwerger (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing carbon emission debt. A method includes actions of obtaining candidate cloud deployment architectures; obtaining a set of requirements for quality attributes, each requirement corresponding to a respective quality attribute of the candidate cloud deploymen...