ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,368, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Causam Enterprises Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"System and method for estimating and providing dispatchable operating reserve energy capacity through use of active load management" was invented by Joseph W. Forbes Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for providing operating reserves to an electric power grid are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises at least one power consuming device, at least one controllable device, and a client device constructed and configured in network communication. The at least one controllable device is operably coupled to the at least one powe...