ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,873, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for minimizing CO2 emissions with geographic placement of internet of things (IoT) device with respect to data geolocations for IoT data gathering" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Punjab, India), Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas) and Malathi Ramakrishnan (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Internet of Things (IoT) edge gateway device information handling system executing an IoT edge gateway device location optimization and carbon dioxide (CO2) minimization system may comprise a network interface device receiving, a...