ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,144, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Storage-driven power optimization" was invented by James Salvadore (Amherst, N.H.), Michael Salerno Jr. (Temple, N.H.), Luc Poulin (Charlton, Mass.) and Paul Martin (Clonakilty, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example methodology includes, by a computing device, polling a power monitoring device coupled to a storage system for power consumption by the storage system and whether the power consumption exceeds a power consumption threshold. The method also includes, responsive to a determination that the power consumption exceeds the power consump...