ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,195, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Microgrid network characterization" was invented by Ranjay Singh (Bangalore, India), Manoj Kumar Bantupalli (Bangalore, India), Srideep Chatterjee (Bhopal, India) and Ayush Sharan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An microgrid with a microgrid controller characterizes individual power generating assets of the microgrid by determining the level of expected parasitic losses in the delivery of power from the assets to loads that are being powered by the microgrid. The controller may command changes in the power delivery from a particular asset and the...