ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,285, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BrightNight Power LLC (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

"Optimization of inverter and capacitor bank sizing for reactive power management" was invented by Lucas Harvey (Orinda, Calif.), Cedric Leroy (Austin, Texas) and Benjamin Calvin Bourne (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by processors, cause them to configure an electrical generation facility to meet a power factor requirement by determining a range of inverter counts, generating combinations of inverter counts and power factor settings based on manufacture...