ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,724, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Code energy efficiency" was invented by Praveen Jha (Patna, India), Prakash Kumar (Bangalore, India), Prabhat Kumar Singh (Ranchi, India), Sushanth B R (Bengaluru, India), Maruthi Srinivas Singamsetty (Vijayawada, India) and Muhammed Bilal A (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are provided for increasing the energy efficiency of computing code. Many computing operations can be implemented in a number of different ways. While the end result of each implementation may be the same, the energy efficiency of the implementations can vary d...