ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,787, issued on June 23, was assigned to Utopus Insights Inc. (Valhalla, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for ramp predictions for forecasting power using neighboring sites" was invented by Chanaka Keerthisinghe (Auckland, New Zealand), Ana Rita Reis Machado da Silva (Fradelos, Portugal), Paulino Tardaguila Calvo (Binissalem, Spain), Thomas N. Theis (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.) and Gabor Horvath (Zalakaros, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes, at a weather forecast time, determining a lag between a target renewable energy site and a first nearby site for which respective power measurements are correlated, selectin...