ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,432, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Method and system for the hierarchical scheduling of energy flows in microgrids deploying battery energy storage systems" was invented by Sameer D. Manikfan (Hyderabad, India) and Andrew J. Trenchard (Romsey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method and system manages energy flows between an electrical grid and a plurality of microgrids that deploy at least one battery energy storage system, and which are controlled by a microgrid controller. A central controller receives electrical grid information from external sources and is arr...