ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,326, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Rack level power throttling" was invented by Xiong Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xin Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Qiong Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kaushik Vaidyanathan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chenhao Nan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Robert Ashby Armistead III (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is generally directed to a coordinated power throttling mechanism for a payload using power provided by a rack such that the rack power does not exceed a threshold amount for greater than a predetermined period of time. The coordinated power throttling ...