ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,642, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Graph based representation of data centers to predict energy consumption and carbon emission of the data centers during operation" was invented by Gourav Rattihalli (Milpitas, Calif.), Philipp Raith (Milpitas, Calif.) and Dejan S. Milojicic (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a first data center graph including a plurality of host graphs, the host graphs representing resources of hosts of a data center, combining the first data center graph with an application signature graph to produce a seco...