US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "AI-driven elastic network to reduce energy consumption" (French, Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,549, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AI-driven elastic network to reduce energy consumption" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device maintains a digital twin of a computer network. The device determines, based on the digital twin, an action to reduce energy consumption by the computer network. The device validates the action using the digital to ensure that performance of the actio...