ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,793, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Limiting execution of database operations based on power usage policy data" was invented by S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago), George Kondiles (Highland Park, Ill.), Dylan Sebastian Murphy (Newton, Mass.), Neil Kumar (Chicago), Joseph Jablonski (Chicago) and Ian Michael Drury (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to determine power usage policy data and generate operation requirement data based on the power usage policy data. A database operation is determined for execution, and an energy utilization-based o...