ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,980, issued on May 20, was assigned to LO3 Energy Inc. (San Francisco).

"Use of computationally generated thermal energy" was invented by Lawrence Orsini (San Francisco) and Yun Wei (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computing device-implemented method includes receiving at least one triggering event signal from one or more components of a heat recovery system. The method also includes determining, based in part on the at least one triggering event signal, a computation workload assignment to be executed on one or more computation devices. The method further includes sending one or more command signals to ...