US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 2 for "Command to obtain power consumption data" (New York, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,651, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Command to obtain power consumption data" was invented by Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.), Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Christopher J Colonna (Ossining, N.Y.) and Stephen Robert Guendert (Murfreesboro, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving network device obtains a command built to enable a control program of a device coupled to the receiving network device to obtain power consumption data of one or more selected units of a network. The command includes an indication of the one or more selected units for which the...