ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,800, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CHANGSHA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Changsha, China).

"Hierarchical energy management for community microgrids with integration of second-life battery energy storage systems and photovoltaic solar energy" was invented by Yongxi Zhang (Changsha, China), Youjun Deng (Changsha, China), Yuanyuan Wang (Changsha, China) and Gongping Wu (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second-life battery-based super multi-objective energy management method for a smart community microgrid, including: establishing a residual life decay model of the second-life battery based on a residual c...