ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,949, issued on April 8, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for power generation forecasting using text mining and feature engineering" was invented by Robert Leffler (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for power generation forecasting in a microgrid are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises at least one processor; and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions when executed cause the system to: obtain weather information; extract, from the weather information, one or more weather events, the one or more...