ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,264, issued on April 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data center with energy-aware workload placement" was invented by Asser Nasreldin Tantawi (Somers, N.Y.), Tamar Eilam (New York), Ramachandra Rao Kolluri (Cranbourne East, Australia), Eun Kyung Lee (Bedford Corners, N.Y.), Arun Vishwanath (Nunawading, Australia) and Alaa S. Youssef (Valhalla, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product for boosting efficiency through energy-aware workload placement. The method includes obtaining an energy profile for a plurality of co...