ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,662, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Calculating and utilizing power metrics for connected network devices" was invented by Sandip Kumar Ghosh (Bangalore, India) and Prashanth Kumar H P (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may determine a bandwidth utilization and a power consumption by the network device, and may receive a carbon emission value and an electricity cost associated with the network device. The network device may determine weights for the power consumption, the carbon emission value, and the electricity cost, and may calculate one ...