ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,692, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Discovery Energy LLC (Kohler, Wis.).
"Decentralized hardware-in-the-loop scheme" was invented by Jorge Elizondo Martinez (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method tests the configuration of an aggregated DERs system using distributed asset managers in a decentralized hardware-in-the-loop ("HIL") scheme. The managers contain the model of the asset they are meant to control. The method programs an asset manager with a model of a DERs asset. A plurality of asset managers are connected to a central controller. The plurality of asset managers are also connected to a simplified hardw...