ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,413, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).

"Method for performing a start-up of an offshore plant without external energy sources" was invented by Marco Bruschini (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a start-up of an offshore plant. The offshore plant comprises a power grid, wherein the power grid comprises a power generation source for generating the energy, a load driven by the power generation source and connected to the power grid, a battery energy storage system connected to the power grid and to the load, and a switching and detecting device co...