US Patent Issued to Causam Enterprises on Sept. 23 for "System, method, and apparatus for actively managing consumption of electric power supplied by one or more electric power grid operators" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,874, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Causam Enterprises Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"System, method, and apparatus for actively managing consumption of electric power supplied by one or more electric power grid operators" 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 apparatus for power management in an electric power grid are disclosed. A power flow to a plurality of power consuming devices in the electric power grid is enabled and disabled by a plurality of controllable devices under the control of one or more client devices. An apparatus receives a power control command sele...