ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,202, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BRIGHTNIGHT POWER LLC (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

"PV power plant control to provide ancillary services" was invented by Erik Ellis (Phoenix), Benjamin Calvin Bourne (Davis, Calif.) and Mohit Aggarwal (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic (PV) power plant configured to provide ancillary services, the PV power plant including a plurality of PV arrays, a plurality of inverters coupled to the plurality of PV arrays, and a controller to measure an output of a first subset of the plurality of inverters, determine, based on the measured output of the first subset of the plurality ...