ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,212, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for peak power management" was invented by Magesh Lingan (Bengaluru, India), Praveen Garikapati (Vijayawada, India), Pratiksha Sharma (Amgaon, India), Madhav Kamath (Bengaluru, India) and Ram Prasad (Chengalpattu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for power load management in a facility. An initialization step includes identifying power curtailment actions that may be taken, using operator input to select usable power curtailment actions, and quantifying effects of power curtailment actions by use of mod...