ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,718, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Steering compute workloads based on carbon costs" was invented by Mario Bertram Vincent (Bengaluru, India) and Troy William Heber (Greeley, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for discerning energy consumption and carbon footprint data associated with hardware-as-a-service resources, and managing workloads based on carbon cost metrics. A management interface collects energy consumption information associated with a plurality of servers processing workloads in a cloud computing environment. The management inte...