US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 7 for "Data compression with trustworthy energy awareness" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,947, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data compression with trustworthy energy awareness" was invented by Aidan O'Mahony (Cork, Ireland), Ahmed Khalid (Cork, Ireland), Alan Barnett (County Cork, Ireland) and Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy aware data compression is disclosed. A storage array may receive data from a client to be compressed. The storage array may request information from a compression awareness engine that is configured to estimate compression times in the context of energy source and energy cost. The storage array makes a decision to ...