ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,093, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Energy consumption optimization in digital twin applications" was invented by Josep Xavier Salvat Lozano (Heidelberg, Germany), Xi Li (Heidelberg, Germany), Lanfranco Zanzi (Heidelberg, Germany) and Xavier Costa Perez (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for optimizing energy consumption of a digital twin system. A plurality of input metrics are received for each of a plurality of digital twins implemented in the digital twin system, the input metrics including sensor data from a plurality of corresponding physical counterparts of t...