ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,427, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Carbon footprint reduction by quantifying and mitigating data waste" was invented by Vishwas Chouhan (Bethpage, N.Y.), Pawel Jasionowski (Wroclaw, Poland), Madan Cheemakurthi (Bangalore, India), Ramamuneeswar Kanala (Bangalore, India), Savita Pathak (Pune, India), Syed Faisal (Canton, Mich.), Manoj Kumar Joshi (Greater Noida West, India), Ricardo Wenceslao Moreau Moreno (Chapala, Mexico) and Sanjay Patel (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application programming interface (API) analysis system includes a data network and an API Carbon Footprint Analyzer (A...