US Patent Issued to Causam Enterprises on March 24 for "System, method, and apparatus for electric power grid and network management of grid elements" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,299, issued on March 24, was assigned to Causam Enterprises Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"System, method, and apparatus for electric power grid and network management of grid elements" was invented by Joseph W. Forbes Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for smart electric power grid communication are disclosed in the present invention. At least one grid element transmits at least one registration message over an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network to at least one coordinator. The at least one coordinator registers the at least one grid element upon receipt of the at least one registration mess...