US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 30 for "Structure for computationally efficient optimization for real time microgrid dispatch" (British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,253, issued on June 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Structure for computationally efficient optimization for real time microgrid dispatch" was invented by Suresh Baddam Reddy (Peoria, Ill.), Kevin J. Sergott (Dunlap, Ill.), Leo Roger Edward Shead (Peterborough, Great Britain), Gavin Williams (Stamford, Great Britain), Yanchai Zhang (Dunlap, Ill.) and Ranjay Singh (Kanpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microgrid controller microgrid controller of a microgrid system includes processing circuitry configured to calculate real time power demand on the microgrid system; identify candidate energy assets of the...