ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,428, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for multiple energy storage system dispatch" was invented by Suresh B. Reddy (Peoria, Ill.), Kevin J. Sergott (Dunlap, Ill.) and Ronald C. Gayles (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microgrid system includes an electrical bus including at least one electrical load; at least one non-energy storage system asset configured to supply electrical power to the electrical bus; an energy storage system group including: two or more energy storage system assets configured to supply electrical power to the electrical bus, and a system controlle...