ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,732, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Autonomous warehouse-scale computers" was invented by David Lo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liqun Cheng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Parthasarathy Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.) and Sundar Jayakumar Dev (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques to address the challenges of growing hardware and workload heterogeneity using a Warehouse-Scale Computer (WSC) design that improves the efficiency and utilization of WSCs. The WSC design may include an abstraction layer and an efficiency layer in the software s...