ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,188, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for improving computer energy consumption and computer processing by implementing a pluggable carbon emission gateway" was invented by Saurabh Arora (Gurugram, India), Sandeep Kumar Chauhan (Miyapur Hyderabad, India), Puneetha Polasa (Telangana, India), Mohit Dhingra (Hyderabad, India), Sanchit Taggar (New Delhi) and Bhagya Lakshmi Sudha Lavanya Mallidi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for improving computer energy consumption and compu...