ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,572, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for unsupervised identification of behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems" was invented by Hakan Ozlemis (Munich), Ulrich Muenz (Princeton, N.J.) and Siddharth Bhela (Kendall Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems (BESS) in a distribution system includes measuring net power over a number of days via a meters at different locations in the distribution system. Using a time series of the measurement, a behind-the-meter BESS is detected by detecting flat ...