US Patent Issued to Enel X North America on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods to aggregate distributed energy resources" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,640, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Enel X North America Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods to aggregate distributed energy resources" was invented by John Michael Fife (Bend, Ore.) and Gregg Patterson (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for economically optimal control of an electrical system. Some embodiments employ generalized multivariable constrained continuous optimization techniques to determine an optimal control sequence over a future time domain in the presence of any number of costs, savings opportunities (value streams), and constraints. Some embodime...