ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,307, issued on July 28.

"Model prediction-based control method for grid forming of multi-port autonomous reconfigurable solar plants" was invented by Kenan Cao (Nanjing City, China), Lei Cui (Nanjing City, China), Jiebei Zhu (Nanjing City, China), Chenhui Niu (Nanjing City, China), Feng Li (Nanjing City, China), Jie Zhu (Nanjing City, China), Jiahao Shi (Nanjing City, China), Dan Wei (Nanjing City, China), Ke Zhang (Nanjing City, China), Xiaoyu Zhou (Nanjing City, China), Jiaping Qian (Nanjing City, China), Xueke Zhu (Nanjing City, China) and Xiaoyi Liu (Nanjing City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model prediction-based cont...