ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,354, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Energy optimization platform using artificial intelligence and edge computing" was invented by Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), George Albero (Charlotte, N.C.) and Jinna Kim (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to energy optimization. A computing platform may receive an event processing request. The computing platform may identify parameters of the event processing request. The computing platform may input the parameters into a global energy optimization model, to identify an edge computing system at wh...