ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,448, issued on March 31, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Server-side control of power based on service-level agreement" was invented by Arun Venkatasubbaiah Hodigere (Bangalore, India), Anand Haridass (Bangalore, India) and Karunakara Kotary (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein dynamically control the distribution of power to individual components of a node in an overprovisioned rack, node, or accelerators of a data center based on service-level agreements (SLAs) defining priorities for workloads for certain user accounts. The SLA is used to determi...