ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,427, issued on April 7, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Reward generating method for reducing peak load of power consumption and computing device for performing the same" was invented by Cheol-ho Shin (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reward generating method for reducing peak load of power consumption and a computing device for performing the same are provided. The reward generating method for reducing the peak load of the power consumption includes calculating an energy index according to a predetermined time interval using power consumption data ...