US Patent Issued to Intel on June 9 for "Software entity power consumption estimation and monitoring" (Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,723, issued on June 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Software entity power consumption estimation and monitoring" was invented by Chris M. MacNamara (Ballyclough, Ireland), John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland) and Amruta Misra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Telemetry information in the form of platform telemetry, virtualization layer telemetry, and application telemetry can be used to estimate power consumption of a software entity, such as a virtual machine, container, application, or network slice. A controller can take various actions based on software entity power consumption information. If a...