ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,311, issued on July 28.

"Adaptive intelligent controls for resilient integration of energy systems" was invented by Soumya Kundu (Richland, Wash.), Sai Pushpak Nandanoori (Richland, Wash.), Veronica A Adetola (Richland, Wash.) and Karanjit Kalsi (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Local, autonomous rules for grid-forming inverter control are disclosed herein that maintain sufficient inverter capacity in the event of disruptions. The controls only rely on local measurements of frequency, voltage, real and reactive power, and real and reactive power set-points. Inverters using such controls do not need neighboring node or i...