ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,208, issued on May 12, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Analysis of potential for reduction of enterprise carbon footprint profile" was invented by Pushkala Iyer (Round Rock, Texas), Lori Lynn Matthews (Austin, Texas) and Rekha Poosala (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards reducing the carbon footprint arising from a client's operational workloads performed at a data center. Various embodiments are presented to enable assessment of the client's requirements regarding the workloads performed on digital data stored at one or more data centers. Based ...