US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Network energy utilization reporting and benchmarking" (Lebanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,970, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network energy utilization reporting and benchmarking" was invented by Ammar Rayes (Alamo, Calif.), Samer M. Salam (Beirut) and Balaji Venkatraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, methods, and processes for benchmarking sustainability in information technology (IT) infrastructure. A data collection module may gather sustainability-related telemetry metrics from various sources, such as, but not limited to, network elements, internet of things (IoT) endpoints, and/or building management systems. A c...