ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,429, issued on June 23, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Voltage regulation controller for microgrids with renewables and hybrid energy storage" was invented by Khalid Abdullah Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Khalid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure envisages a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) for power management of a microgrid. The system includes a plurality of renewable energy sources (RES), a plurality of power converters, a DC bus and a power management controller. Each RES is configured to generate a current IRES. Ea...