ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,637, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Data center system, inter-base workload control method, and inter-base workload control system" was invented by Taku Okamura (Tokyo) and Satoshi Kaneko (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power demand at each base is adjusted so as to improve a renewable energy utilization ratio at all bases. An inter-base workload control system manages an amount of excess power obtained by subtracting a power supply amount of the renewable energy power supply from a power consumption amount associated with execution of a workload in a future time range at the bases,...