US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Jan. 27 for "Microgrid configuration optimization for battery agnostic systems" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,383, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Microgrid configuration optimization for battery agnostic systems" was invented by Sowmya Nagesh (Peoria, Ill.), Gregory Scott Hasler (Pekin, Ill.), Ronald Christopher Gayles (Peoria, Ill.), Ranjay Singh (Kanpur, India) and Manoj Kumar Bantupalli (Vizianagaram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microgrid controller may measure a group state-of-charge (SOC) of a group of energy storage systems (ESSs), calculate a total real power demanded by a plurality of loads, determine an available real power for a group of renewable-energy-based (REB) energy resource s...