ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,808, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Time-shifting optimizations for resource generation and dispatch" was invented by Peeyush Kumar (Seattle), Alireza Sadeghi (St. Paul, Minn.), Srinivasan Iyengar (Bangalore, India), Shadi Abdollahian Noghabi (Redmond, Wash.), Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (Bangalore, India), Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.), Riyaz Pishori (Sammamish, Wash.), Upendra Singh (Redmond, Wash.), Weiwei Yang (Redmond, Wash.) and Swati Sharma (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to optimize generation and dispatch o...