ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,450, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Causam Enterprises Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Method and apparatus for actively managing electric power supply for an electric power grid" was invented by Joseph W. Forbes Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing power supplied over an electric power grid by an electric utility and/or other market participants to a multiplicity of grid elements and devices for supply and/or load curtailment as supply, each of which having a supply equivalence value associated with its energy consumption and/or reduction in consumption and/or supply, and wherein messaging ...