US Patent Issued to Discovery Energy on Feb. 18 for "Optimization controller for distributed energy resources" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,895, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Discovery Energy LLC (Kohler, Wis.).

"Optimization controller for distributed energy resources" was invented by Jorge Elizondo Martinez (Somerville, Mass.), Seth Calvert Drew (Somerville, Mass.), Trudie Wang (Oakland, Calif.) and Shuyang Li (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset manager is configured to control distribution of power within an aggregated distributed energy resources system. The asset manager is configured to solve a given asset model that models a real asset. The asset controller is configured to optimize a setpoint of the asset by determining a first trajector...