ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,537, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for prioritizing maintenance of cooling units of a data center" was invented by Jayaprakash Meruva (Bangalore, India), Madhav V Kamath (Bengaluru, India), Magesh Lingan (Bangalore, India) and Srikanth Nagaraj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example may be found in a method of identifying one or more cooling units of a plurality of cooling units servicing a data center that has a reduced relative performance level relative to other of the plurality of cooling units. The method includes monitoring a performanc...