ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,392, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GE Vernova Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"System and method for operating an inverter-based resource in grid-forming mode (GFM) for enhanced stability" was invented by Rupam Basak (Howrah, India), Arvind Kumar Tiwari (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Veena Padmarao (Bengaluru, India), Rabisankar Roy (Bengaluru, India), Cornelius Edward Holliday III (Forest, Va.) and Dustin F. Howard (Brookhaven, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a renewable energy source having an inverter-based resource (IBR) system connected to a power grid includes: operating the IBR system as a virtu...