ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,459, issued on March 18.

"Systems and methods for managing electricity supply from demand" was invented by Junkyeong Kim (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) and Minjun Seo (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to manage power consumption from a grid includes a building switchgear; an energy storage system (ESS) coupled to the building switchgear to selectively provide power in response to a customer power demand to prevent a customer grid power consumption from spiking and peaking at grid imbalance highest cost on peak times; an energy management system (EMS) to operate the ESS from behind-the-meter; and a data di...