ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,089, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient datacenter energy management based on compute capacity and fleet management" was invented by Mahya Shahbazi (San Jose, Calif.), Binayak Roy (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gregory Imwalle (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Varun Sakalkar (Redwood City, Calif.), Patrick Heisel (Breckenridge, Colo.) and Parthasarathy Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is generally directed to a management framework that uses a predictive feedback control loop to reduce energy consumption of a datacenter. The framework determines how to place a series ...