ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,281, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Virtual machine migration based on power utilization" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India), Suren Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Durai S. Singh (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises retrieving power utilization data of a plurality of host devices and identifying at least one virtual machine for migration from a source host device to a target host device of the plurality of host devices. In the method, power utilization of the at least one virtual machine is predicted. The target host device is determined based, a...