US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "Systems and methods for determining energy efficiency quotients" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,458, issued on May 13, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining energy efficiency quotients" was invented by Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Cesar Obediente (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving energy efficiency data from a plurality of nodes within a network. The method also includes determining an energy efficiency node quotient for each of the plurality of nodes within the network to generate a plurality of energy efficiency node quotients a...