ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,432, issued on March 25, was assigned to ECOJIVA LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Electrical load management system" was invented by Sridhar K. Ayer (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Terence Antony Goveas (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Clement David Vijayakumar (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Jyothi Puli (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical load management system for controlling first, second, and third electrical loads is provided. A load management computer determines a demand threshold indicating a threshold amount of demanded power from a utility company power grid. The computer determines whether a time interval has an associat...