ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,016, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for transitioning to backup power pooling" was invented by Sangsun Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Krishnanjan Gubba Ravikumar (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for power pooling, the system including a shared power line, a plurality of backup power supplies connected to the shared power line through respective transformers and one or more controllers configured to, for each respective backup power supply, after passage of a different respective predetermined amount of time, determine whether a transformer connecte...