ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,987, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Combined datacenter and rack throttling" was invented by Peter Bruce Lundgren (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tianran Liang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is generally directed to a power throttling mechanism controlled by a payload receiving power provided by a rack, or other such power source. The power level provided by the rack may be maintained for a predetermined period of time. The power throttling mechanism may include the payload determining the predetermined period of time and a throttling offset. The payload may execu...