ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,451, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apparent Labs LLC (Novato, Calif.).
"Modular power grid" was invented by Stefan Matan (Novato, Calif.), Fred C. Horton (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Frank P. Marrone (Cloverdale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed grid intelligence can enable a modular power grid. Multiple consumer nodes are coupled to a same point of common coupling (PCC). Local power sources are coupled to the PCC. None of the power sources has sufficient generation capacity alone to meet peak demand of the multiple consumer nodes of the grid segment. The grid segment includes multiple control nodes to control dis...