US Patent Issued to Rakuten Symphony on Feb. 17 for "Estimating power consumption of software workloads" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,301, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rakuten Symphony Inc. (Tokyo).

"Estimating power consumption of software workloads" was invented by Sree Nandan Atur (San Jose, Calif.) and Mruthyunjaya Navali (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy estimator runs workloads to determine power consumed by processor cores in various power states and utilizations. This power consumption data is then used by an energy export agent for further calculations on different scenarios and cases. The energy export agent reads a total power consumption value from a CPU, data describing execution of processes from an operating system, and...