ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,198, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automatic detection of grid-connected distributed energy resources" was invented by Sze Mei Cat Wong (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Leo Francis Casey (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for determining whether a distributed energy resource is connected at a location. Electrical load data is obtained for a location over a time period. The electrical load data is analyzed to determine one or more signals from the electrical load data. The signals are compared to on...