ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,042, issued on April 7, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for limiting carbon dioxide footprint caused by installation of software and firmware updates" was invented by Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas), Malathi Ramakrishnan (Madurai, India) and Parminder Singh Sethi (Punjab, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for executing an update carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint optimization system for a client information handling system comprising a processor to gather telemetry describing power consumption and usage of hardware component resources during execution of a software app...