ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,772, issued on May 6, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Local power storage automation" was invented by James R. Salvadore (Amherst, N.H.), Jimmy P. Nyhan (Riverstick, Ireland) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Local power storage automation (e.g., using a computerized tool), is enabled. For example, a system can comprise: a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: based on historical power consumption data applicable to a data center rack, determining a predicted future power consum...