US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 19 for "Distributed power units for datacenters" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,104, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distributed power units for datacenters" was invented by Afshin Majd (Seattle), Ryan Douglas Carver (Seattle), Ehsan Nasr Azadani (Sammamish, Wash.) and Lalu Vannankandy Kunnath (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing auxiliary power to a datacenter, which is normally serviced by a power utility, are disclosed. The system includes a controller, a first stamp, and a second stamp. A common DC bus couples the first stamp to the second stamp on a DC side. A common AC bus couples the first stamp to the second stam...