ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,295, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) and POWERSECURE Inc. (Wake Forest, N.C.).

"Power source communication with downstream device by changing output voltage on a power bus" was invented by Arne Ballantine (Palo Alto, Calif.), Prasad Pmsvvsv (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rajesh Gopinath (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ranganathan Gurunathan (Bangalore, India), Robert Harris (Mebane, N.C.), Marshall Worth (Raleigh, N.C.), Chaitanya Mandela (Bangalore, India) and Vishal Anand Gopalakrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation system includes a power source that is configured to commun...