US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods of mode selection in microgrids" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,287, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods of mode selection in microgrids" was invented by Sowmya Nagesh (Peoria, Ill.), Ronald Christopher Gayles (Peoria, Ill.) and Gregory Scott Hasler (Pekin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a microgrid may include a plurality of microgrid power supply assets of a microgrid, where microgrid power supply assets include a first microgrid power supply asset of a first type and a second microgrid power supply asset different from the first type, and a microgrid controller communicably coupled to the plurality of m...