US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for control of distributed energy resources" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,712, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for control of distributed energy resources" was invented by Srideep Chatterjee (Bhopal, India), Vineeth Wilson (Kerala, India), Kevin J. Sergott (Dunlap, Ill.), Sowmya Nagesh (Peoria, Ill.) and Suresh B. Reddy (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling distributed energy resources. Controllers in a peer-to-peer network are configured to act as a dispatch handler for electrical buses connected to respective set of power assets and loads. The controllers are configured to broadcast micro-g...