US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Active power distribution unit phase rotation for power redundancy" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,094, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Active power distribution unit phase rotation for power redundancy" was invented by Luke L. Jenkins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and John Torok (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented apparatus and related method control a dynamic phase rotation unit of a power distribution unit (PDU). The method comprises using a processor of a system controller for identifying a PDU group of two or more redundant PDUs, receiving input parameters from an...