ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,380, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Doosan GridTech Inc. (Seattle).

"Hierarchical control system for optimal management of energy resources" was invented by Nate Diamond (Seattle), Sam Skrivan (Seattle), Jacob Hansen (Dover, N.H.), Krysta Suzanne Yousoufian (Lake Forest Park, Wash.) and Paydon Wilinchery (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for optimizing energy management of an energy resource site. For instance, a hierarchical energy management system can provide optimized management of energy resource sites with large numbers of energy resources. In particular, the hierarchical energy manage...