ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,012, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fronius International GmbH (Pettenbach, Austria).

"Energy management system" was invented by Florian Guschlbauer (Pettenbach, Austria), Dominik Pfaffenbichler (Pettenbach, Austria) and Johannes Muehlegger (Pettenbach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy management system for managing an energy flow of a photovoltaic system comprising a user interface used to notify a user about an emergency operation mode of the photovoltaic system triggered by a power supply grid failure and to provide recommendations for the user with respect to a handling of power-consuming loads of a load netwo...