Patents by Inventor Mark Alan MONROE
Mark Alan MONROE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12610508Abstract: A system may include a datacenter supervisory control system (SCS). A system may include at least one datacenter sensor in data communication with the SCS to communicate a datacenter state variable to the SCS. A system may include at least one environmental sensor in data communication with the SCS to communicate an environmental state variable to the SCS. A system may include a water aware controller in data communication with the SCS, wherein the water aware controller includes a predictor that receives a datacenter state input based on the datacenter state variable, the environmental state input based on the environmental state variable, and at least one user objective function, and the water aware controller transmits a selected action to the SCS to meet a setpoint based on the datacenter state input and the environmental state input.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ehsan Nasr Azadani, Eric C. Peterson, Winston Allen Saunders, Sean Patrick Abbott, Mark Alan Monroe, Sean Michael James, Kristofer Andrew Johnson, Christian L. Belady, Anthony Joseph Bianchi
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Patent number: 12432889Abstract: A thermal management system includes an air handling unit (AHU) configured to receive outside air (OA) from an OA intake, and water from a water source, where the AHU is configured to direct conditioned air toward a cold aisle and the AHU includes a modular adiabatic layer containing an evaporative media, and the modular adiabatic layer includes a plurality of subregions configured to be wetted by the evaporative media independently of one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ehsan Nasr Azadani, Eric C. Peterson, Winston Allen Saunders, Sean Patrick Abbott, Mark Alan Monroe, Kristofer Andrew Johnson, Christian L. Belady, Anthony Joseph Bianchi
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Patent number: 12402278Abstract: Examples described in this disclosure relate to waste cold recuperation in fuel cell based power generation systems for datacenters. An example waste cold recuperation system includes a liquefied gas storage for supplying liquefied gas as a coolant to cool a first set of compute resources configurable to operate in a first cryogenic environment. The system is configurable to supply at least some of the vapor phase of the liquefied gas as a coolant to cool a second set of compute resources configurable to operate in a second cryogenic environment, resulting in the at least some of the vapor phase of the liquefied gas becoming a super-heated vapor phase of the liquefied gas. The system is configurable to supply the super-heated vapor phase of the liquefied gas as fuel to fuel cells for providing electrical power to a datacenter load including compute resources configurable to operate in a non-cryogenic environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ruslan Nagimov, Husam A. Alissa, Mark Alan Monroe, Sean M. James
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Patent number: 12311312Abstract: A carbon capture system includes two carbon capture plates. A first carbon capture plate collects carbon dioxide from a flow of ambient air. A second carbon capture plate releases carbon dioxide upon application of heat from a heat exchanger. The heat is exhaust heat from a data center. The first carbon capture plate and the second carbon capture plate are rotatable between the capture and release positions. The carbon capture system uses the waste heat from a data center to collect and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby reducing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Husam Atallah Alissa, Mark Alan Monroe, Bharath Ramakrishnan, Vaidehi Oruganti
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Patent number: 12314102Abstract: A power controller allocates input power to a datacenter between computing power for computing services, backup power, and overhead power for overhead systems. The power controller reallocates the overhead power and/or the backup power to the computing power. This may increase the overall utilization of the datacenter by allowing additional processing power of the servers to be used.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ehsan Nasr Azadani, Alok Gautam Kumbhare, Mark Alan Monroe, Osvaldo P. Morales, Christian L. Belady, Kyle Woolcock, Ricardo Gouvêa Bianchini, Winston Allen Saunders, Lalu Vannankandy Kunnath, Rodrigo Lemos de Assis, Brijesh Warrier, Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Sean Patrick Abbott, David Thomas Gauthier, Ashish Raniwala, Nithish Mahalingam, Brian Addams Janous, Upshur Bagwell Quinby, V
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Publication number: 20240414892Abstract: A system may include a datacenter supervisory control system (SCS). A system may include at least one datacenter sensor in data communication with the SCS to communicate a datacenter state variable to the SCS. A system may include at least one environmental sensor in data communication with the SCS to communicate an environmental state variable to the SCS. A system may include a water aware controller in data communication with the SCS, wherein the water aware controller includes a predictor that receives a datacenter state input based on the datacenter state variable, the environmental state input based on the environmental state variable, and at least one user objective function, and the water aware controller transmits a selected action to the SCS to meet a setpoint based on the datacenter state input and the environmental state input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Ehsan NASR AZADANI, Eric C. PETERSON, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Sean Patrick ABBOTT, Mark Alan MONROE, Sean Michael JAMES, Kristofer Andrew JOHNSON, Christian L. BELADY, Anthony Joseph BIANCHI
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Publication number: 20240334657Abstract: A thermal management system includes an air handling unit (AHU) configured to receive outside air (OA) from an OA intake, and water from a water source, where the AHU is configured to direct conditioned air toward a cold aisle and the AHU includes a modular adiabatic layer containing an evaporative media, and the modular adiabatic layer includes a plurality of subregions configured to be wetted by the evaporative media independently of one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Ehsan NASR AZADANI, Eric C. PETERSON, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Sean Patrick ABBOTT, Mark Alan MONROE, Kristofer Andrew JOHNSON, Christian L. BELADY, Anthony Joseph BIANCHI
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Publication number: 20240206117Abstract: Examples described in this disclosure relate to waste cold recuperation in fuel cell based power generation systems for datacenters. An example waste cold recuperation system includes a liquefied gas storage for supplying liquefied gas as a coolant to cool a first set of compute resources configurable to operate in a first cryogenic environment. The system is configurable to supply at least some of the vapor phase of the liquefied gas as a coolant to cool a second set of compute resources configurable to operate in a second cryogenic environment, resulting in the at least some of the vapor phase of the liquefied gas becoming a super-heated vapor phase of the liquefied gas. The system is configurable to supply the super-heated vapor phase of the liquefied gas as fuel to fuel cells for providing electrical power to a datacenter load including compute resources configurable to operate in a non-cryogenic environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Ruslan NAGIMOV, Husam A. ALISSA, Mark Alan MONROE, Sean M. JAMES
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Publication number: 20240009614Abstract: A carbon capture system includes two carbon capture plates. A first carbon capture plate collects carbon dioxide from a flow of ambient air. A second carbon capture plate releases carbon dioxide upon application of heat from a heat exchanger. The heat is exhaust heat from a data center. The first carbon capture plate and the second carbon capture plate are rotatable between the capture and release positions. The carbon capture system uses the waste heat from a data center to collect and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby reducing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Husam Atallah ALISSA, Mark Alan MONROE, Bharath RAMAKRISHNAN, Vaidehi ORUGANTI
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Publication number: 20230418347Abstract: A power controller allocates input power to a datacenter between computing power for computing services, backup power, and overhead power for overhead systems. The power controller reallocates the overhead power and/or the backup power to the computing power. This may increase the overall utilization of the datacenter by allowing additional processing power of the servers to be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Ehsan NASR AZADANI, Alok Gautam KUMBHARE, Mark Alan MONROE, Osvaldo P. MORALES, Christian L. BELADY, Kyle WOOLCOCK, Ricardo Gouvêa BIANCHINI, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Lalu Vannankandy KUNNATH, Rodrigo Lemos de ASSIS, Brijesh WARRIER, Marcus Felipe FONTOURA, Sean Patrick ABBOTT, David Thomas GAUTHIER, Ashish RANIWALA, Nithish MAHALINGAM, Brian Addams JANOUS, Upshur Bagwell QUINBY, V
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Publication number: 20230367653Abstract: A method of power management in a datacenter includes obtaining at least one workload status of at least one server rack, obtaining at least one infrastructure parameter, obtaining at least one utility telemetry, and comparing the at least one workload status to the at least one utility telemetry. The method further includes determining a workload demand based at least partially on a difference between the at least one workload status and the at least one utility telemetry and changing the at least one infrastructure parameter based on the workload demand and the at least one infrastructure parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Alok Gautam KUMBHARE, Ehsan NASR AZADANI, Ricardo Gouvêa BIANCHINI, Mark Alan MONROE, Christian L. BELADY, Osvaldo P. MORALES, Kyle WOOLCOCK, Rodrigo Lemos de ASSIS, Brijesh WARRIER, Marcus Felipe FONTOURA, Ashish RANIWALA, Nithish MAHALINGAM
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Patent number: 11801470Abstract: A carbon capture system includes two carbon capture plates. A first carbon capture plate collects carbon dioxide from a flow of ambient air. A second carbon capture plate releases carbon dioxide upon application of heat from a heat exchanger. The heat is exhaust heat from a data center. The first carbon capture plate and the second carbon capture plate are rotatable between the capture and release positions. The carbon capture system uses the waste heat from a data center to collect and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby reducing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Husam Atallah Alissa, Mark Alan Monroe, Bharath Ramakrishnan, Vaidehi Oruganti
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Publication number: 20230201757Abstract: A carbon capture system includes two carbon capture plates. A first carbon capture plate collects carbon dioxide from a flow of ambient air. A second carbon capture plate releases carbon dioxide upon application of heat from a heat exchanger. The heat is exhaust heat from a data center. The first carbon capture plate and the second carbon capture plate are rotatable between the capture and release positions. The carbon capture system uses the waste heat from a data center to collect and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby reducing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Husam Atallah ALISSA, Mark Alan MONROE, Bharath RAMAKRISHNAN, Vaidehi ORUGANTI
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Patent number: 11639831Abstract: Cooling a first device and second device in a fashion to produce water. The method includes collecting environmental air from an environment. The environmental air is used to cool a first device. Cooling the first device generates first device exhaust air produced from the environmental air. The first device exhaust air is provided to a first device portion of a heat exchanger. At a second device portion of the heat exchanger, thermally coupled to the first device portion of the heat exchanger, second device exhaust air generated by cooling a second device is received. At the heat exchanger, the first device exhaust air is used to cool the second device exhaust air to a dew point, causing condensed water to be created from the second device exhaust air. The condensed water is collected.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christian L. Belady, David Thomas Gauthier, Sean M. James, Brian Addams Janous, Mark Alan Monroe
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Publication number: 20190339030Abstract: Cooling a first device and second device in a fashion to produce water. The method includes collecting environmental air from an environment. The environmental air is used to cool a first device. Cooling the first device generates first device exhaust air produced from the environmental air. The first device exhaust air is provided to a first device portion of a heat exchanger. At a second device portion of the heat exchanger, thermally coupled to the first device portion of the heat exchanger, second device exhaust air generated by cooling a second device is received. At the heat exchanger, the first device exhaust air is used to cool the second device exhaust air to a dew point, causing condensed water to be created from the second device exhaust air. The condensed water is collected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Christian L. BELADY, David Thomas GAUTHIER, Sean M. JAMES, Brian Addams JANOUS, Mark Alan MONROE