ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,031, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Power and energy optimization across distributed cloud environment" was invented by Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, Texas), Utpal Mangla (Toronto), Sai Srinivas Gorti (Irving, Texas), Sharath Prasad Krishna Prasad (Flower Mound, Texas), Venkatesh Ashok Rao Rao (Natick, Mass.), Praveen Jayachandran (Bangalore, India), Eric Lee Gose (Dallas), Juel Daniel Raju (Garland, Texas) and Amandeep Singh (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for managing workload deployment in a distributed network, including edge computing is pro...