ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,926, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Quanta Technology LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Local electric power system (EPS) field tester" was invented by Farid Katiraei (Markham, Canada), Aghil Davari (North York, Canada), Shadi Chuangpishit (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Amin Zamani (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local electric power system (EPS) field tester is provided for field testing of a local EPS. The local EPS has distributed energy resources (DERs) and is capable of operating in conjunction with, or independently from, an external power system while supplying load(s). The local EPS field tester comprises local EPS...