ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,044, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sustainable power shifting in the presence of an uninterruptible power supply" was invented by Luke L. Jenkins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and John Torok (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing intelligent power shifting in an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) system for enhanced system efficiency. Disclosed embodiments implement intelligent power shifting to decre...