US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Data maintenance and deletion with trustworthy energy awareness" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,457, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data maintenance and deletion with trustworthy energy awareness" was invented by Ahmed Khalid (Cork, Ireland), Aidan O'Mahony (Cork, Ireland), Alan Barnett (County Cork, Ireland) and Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving a request to perform a data process, determining, by a trustworthy energy awareness (TEA) module, based on energy information and user constraints, a best time to perform the data process, and conveying, by the TEA module to a recipient, information indicating the best ti...