ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,814, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Computer vision-based energy usage management system" was invented by Dhilip S. Kumar (Bangalore, India), Rajesh Krishnan (Bangalore, India) and Sivaprakasam Rajappan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises at least one camera disposed in an environment, and at least one computing node which hosts and executes an energy management system. The energy management system is configured to utilize computer vision processing of the images of the environment to extract information from the images, to utilize the extracted information ...