ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,318, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cummins Power Generation Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Object based robust and redundant distributed power system control" was invented by Kevin J. Aufderhar (Minneapolis), Paul R. Dahlen (Grant, Minn.), Dennis G. McDonald (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Gordon J. Keller (Hudson, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and apparatuses include a first controller structured to control a first power system object located on a first route of a power system, and a second controller structured to control a second power system object located on a second route of the power system. The first controller and the se...