US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 24 for "Controlling energy usage within data centers" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,569, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Controlling energy usage within data centers" was invented by Krishnanjan Gubba Ravikumar (Ashburn, Va.) and Hariharan Subramanian (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology include techniques and mechanisms for controlling energy usage within data centers. An energy control system (ECS) may use measurement sensors that are integrated within different energy sources and different sources of energy consumption to gather energy usage information. The ECS may analyze the energy usage information using control algorithms. ...