ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,440, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Load imbalance mitigation with component repositioning for higher power subscription in warehouse scale computers" was invented by Vasileios Kontorinis (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dustin Reishus (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current imbalance may be detected and components reactively moved to correct the current imbalance. The components, such as rectifiers, machines, etc., may be moved from the most loaded phase to the least loaded phase. The imbalance may be detected at one or more power distribution units. Rebalancing may be performe...