US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Dec. 2 for "Energy storage system dispatch strategy for multiple non-energy-storage systems with charge restrictions" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,296, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Energy storage system dispatch strategy for multiple non-energy-storage systems with charge restrictions" was invented by Manoj Kumar Bantupalli (Vizianagaram, India), Ranjay Singh (Kanpur, India), Srideep Chatterjee (Bhopal, India) and Sowmya Nagesh (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microgrid controller of a microgrid includes one or more memories configured to store a plurality of state-of-charge (SOC) setpoints corresponding to one or more energy storage systems (ESSs), a lower dispatch threshold that varies based on the plurality of SOC setpoints...