ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,238, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Static data center power balancing and configuration" was invented by Benjamin D. Faulkner (San Jose, Calif.), Mini Rawat (San Jose, Calif.), Tao Li (San Jose, Calif.), Divya Ramakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Swanand Santosh Bindoo (San Jose, Calif.) and Sreedhar Narayanaswamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to select graphics processing units (GPUs) to execute a task is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, GPUs are selected based on one or more task parameters and one or more fused parameters."

The patent was filed on Jan. 22, 2...