US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 26 for "Approximating energy use of software executing on virtual machines" (American, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,797, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Approximating energy use of software executing on virtual machines" was invented by Seth Rothschild (Littleton, Mass.), Rana Afifi (New Cairo, Egypt), Andrew Veitch (Weston, Mass.) and Amy N. Seibel (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approximating energy use of software executing on virtual machines is presented herein. A system determines a pair of energy consumption baselines of a host computing device representing respective energy being utilized by the host computing device; determines, at a sampling time within a job execution period during...