ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,925, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Allocating compute nodes as storage in a power-constrained environment" was invented by Robert Binneweg Francis (Bothell, Wash.), Jeffrey Edwin Shipman (Redmond, Wash.), Samer Arafeh (Sammamish, Wash.) and Nicholas James Anderson (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing storage and computational resources in a datacenter includes obtaining a power delivery limit for a rack power supply delivering power to the plurality of computing devices and measuring a resource telemetry for the first computing device and second ...