ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,349, issued on April 22, was assigned to Causam Enterprises Inc. (Raleigh, Calif.).

"System, method, and data packets for messaging for electric power grid elements over a secure internet protocol network" was invented by Joseph W. Forbes Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and messages of the present invention provides IP-based messages associated with the grid elements, wherein each IP-based message includes an internet protocol (IP) packet that is generated autonomously and/or automatically by the grid elements, intelligent messaging hardware associated with the grid elements, at least one coordinato...