US Patent Issued to Core Scientific on Dec. 23 for "Identifying computing devices in a data center" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,707, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Core Scientific Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Identifying computing devices in a data center" was invented by Lawrence Kom (Redmond, Wash.) and Thomas Middleton Rutledge Fuller (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for managing large numbers of network-enabled devices such as computing devices in a facility such as a data center are disclosed. A management application selects and instructs one of the devices to enter a low power state. The power draw from outlets in a power distribution unit supplying the devices are monitored, and an outlet that is detected as dropping below a pr...