USPTO Patent for Datacenter Facility Design

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Published March 24th, 2026

Detected March 25th, 2026

Summary

The USPTO has granted a patent (US12585840B2) to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC. for methods and apparatuses for designing datacenter facilities. The patent covers processes for receiving facility design requests, utilizing predefined templates, determining connectivity, generating hostnames, and submitting designs for approval.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent US12585840B2 to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC. This patent covers novel methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for the design of datacenter facilities. Key aspects include the automated use of predefined templates for site and rack configurations, determination of cable connectivity, generation of hostnames for equipment, and a workflow for submitting designs for approval by a facility manager. The patent was granted on March 24, 2026, with a filing date of January 26, 2022.

This patent grant signifies a new intellectual property asset in the field of datacenter infrastructure design. While not a regulatory mandate, it may influence how technology companies approach datacenter planning and design, potentially requiring licensing or alternative approaches for entities seeking to implement similar automated design processes. Compliance officers in the technology sector should be aware of this patent as it pertains to intellectual property related to IT infrastructure management and design tools.

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Methods and apparatus for designing datacenter facilities

Grant US12585840B2 Kind: B2 Mar 24, 2026

Assignee

RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC.

Inventors

Azim Khan, Utkarsh Chouhan, Suyash Tiwari, Shiva Shrivastava

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for designing a datacenter facility include receiving a first request to create a first facility; loading a set of predefined templates comprising at least one of a site template and a rack template; associating, with the first facility, one or more instances of at least one predefined template of the set of predefined templates; determining cable connectivity information of the first facility; displaying a first graphical representation of the first facility indicating the respective locations of the set of equipment associated with the first facility; generating one or more hostnames for addressable equipment of the set of equipment associated with the first facility; submitting the first facility for approval; and notifying the facility designer whether the first facility has been approved by the facility manager.