ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,009, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Sustainability modes in software engineering" was invented by Manav Ghosh (Bangalore, India) and Shibi Panikkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: storing, in a memory, a database that identifies whether each of a plurality of nodes is powered by a sustainable power source or a non-sustainable power source; receiving a request to perform an action; detecting whether the plurality of nodes includes one or more candidate nodes, each of the candidate nodes being a node that is powered by a sustainable power source and has ...