ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,941, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Techniques for orchestrated load shedding" was invented by Roy Mehdi Zeighami (Fall City, Wash.), Sumeet Kochar (Cary, N.C.), Jonathan Luke Herman (Seattle) and Mark Lee Huang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques relate to orchestrating power consumption reductions across a number of hosts. Power consumption of power-drawing devices (e.g., hosts, servers, etc.) may be monitored with respect to a power threshold. When the current power consumption corresponding to those devices breaches the power threshold, or at any s...