US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on May 13 for "System and method for distributed communications and control for electric utility grid" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,526, issued on May 13, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and method for distributed communications and control for electric utility grid" was invented by Roger Alexander (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of communicating data to and between a client device in a residence and a utility network is provided. The system includes a proxy controller located at the residence and a first network configured to transmit and receive data between a central controller associated with the utility network and the proxy controller. The system further includes a second network configured to transmit ...