ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,939, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Multi-server system and method of reducing total power consumption of multiple servers" was invented by Ming Lei (Beijing), Caihong Zhang (Beijing), Jiang Chen (Beijing) and Da Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing a total power consumption of multiple servers includes determining an efficiency distribution of a power supply unit of each of the multiple servers, the efficiency distribution including a working efficiency of the power supply unit varied according to a utilization ratio of the power supply unit, wherein the efficiency dist...