ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,993, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Electrical grid operations using on forecast horizon planning" was invented by Matthew L. Ginsberg (Eugene, Ore.) and Benoit Schillings (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for operating sources of electricity in an electrical grid having a forecasting error rate are described. In some implementations, a method includes selecting a forecast horizon based on the forecasting error rate; performing an optimization process for dispatch planni...