US Patent Issued to Centrica Business Solutions Belguim on May 13 for "System for responding to frequency fluctuations in an energy grid" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,004, issued on May 13, was assigned to Centrica Business Solutions Belguim N.V. (Antwerp, Belgium).

"System for responding to frequency fluctuations in an energy grid" was invented by Bert Claessens (Antwerp, Belgium) and Jonas Engels (Antwerp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling assets connected to an electricity distribution grid operating at a predetermined grid frequency is disclosed. The assets comprise assets supplying electrical energy to and/or consuming electrical energy from the grid, with at least some of the assets being configurable to adjust energy flow to or from the grid to counteract grid f...