EMC Assigned Patent

EMC Corp., Hopkinton, MA, has been assigned a patent (8,166,315) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for calculating power for data storage systems."

The co-inventors are Robert F. Wambach, Westwood, MA, F. William French, Harvard, MA, Robert MacArthur, Leominster, MA, and Robert Guenther, Pepperell, MA

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for calculating power for a data storage system. The method includes: measuring power requirement for each one of a plurality of components for use in one of a plurality of possible system configurations; storing the measured power requirement in a table; entering into the table a specified one of the possible system configurations to obtain the power requirement for such one of the specified system configurations; calculating from the table the total power expected for the specified system configuration; presenting the calculated power to a user; determining whether the calculated power is acceptable or unacceptable to the user; and if determined to be unacceptable, entering into the table a new system configuration."

The patent application was filed on March 23, 2007 (11/690,153).