ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,802, issued on March 25, was assigned to United Parcel Service of America Inc. (Atlanta).

"Entity component system utilization for data center and hardware performance analytics" was invented by Peter Podolski (Atlanta) and Steffen Chirichiello (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for providing data monitoring and analysis of a data center using an Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture. Embodiments of the disclosure provide mechanisms for initializing the ECS architecture by associating devices and data metrics relating to the data cen...