US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems for controlling a CHP device in a microgrid" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,736, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Methods and systems for controlling a CHP device in a microgrid" was invented by Peter Pflaum (Meylan, France) and Alejandro Yousef Da Silva (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a combined heat and power device of a microgrid. The method includes at least setting a CHP efficiency target corresponding to a minimum value of the CHP efficiency over an evaluation period; updating historical data regarding the microgrid over a time step; computing a value of the CHP efficiency based on the updated historical da...