ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,942, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for reducing carbon emissions from machine learning computational tasks" was invented by Tapan Ravin Shah (Los Altos, Calif.), Scott Charles Evans (Burnt Hills, N.Y.), Arunvenkataraman Subramanian (Dublin, Calif.), Jeffrey Thomas Maskalunas (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Sachini Piyoni Ekanayake Ekanayake Mudiyanselage (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a scheduling computing device configured to receive computational task data defining a computational task to b...