ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,035, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apparent Labs LLC (Novato, Calif.).

"Energy transactions with distributed energy resources and distributed grid management" was invented by Stefan Matan (Novato, Calif.) and Fred C. Horton (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy grid network includes multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) or DER nodes. A DER node includes a local energy source and a local energy load. The DER nodes in the network generate realtime data about energy availability from local energy sources and realtime data about energy demand. The DER nodes can share the realtime data with other DER nod...