US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for tracking and controlling energy consumption in fleets of electronic devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,879, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for tracking and controlling energy consumption in fleets of electronic devices" was invented by Brian C. Stormont (Uxbridge, Mass.) and Sriram Krishnan (Sharon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a server includes: storing, in a memory of the server, an energy consumption definition corresponding to a client device, the energy consumption definition including: (i) a plurality of operational states of the client device, and (ii) an estimation mechanism for each operational state; receiving, from the client device,...