ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,102, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Allocating power between overhead, backup, and computing power services" was invented by Ehsan Nasr Azadani (Sammamish, Wash.), Alok Gautam Kumbhare (Sammamish, Wash.), Mark Alan Monroe (Louisville, Colo.), Osvaldo P. Morales (Normandy Park, Wash.), Christian L. Belady (Mercer Island, Wash.), Kyle Woolcock (Redmond, Wash.), Ricardo Gouvea Bianchini (Bellevue, Wash.), Winston Allen Saunders (Seattle), Lalu Vannankandy Kunnath (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Rodrigo Lemos de Assis (Kirkland, Wash.), Brijesh Warrier (Bellevue, Wash.), Marcus Felipe Fontoura (Medina, Wash.), Sean Patrick Abbott (Redmond,...