ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,886, issued on July 29, was assigned to Energy Vault Inc. (Westlake Village, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for fault tolerant energy management systems configured to manage heterogeneous power plants" was invented by Shaheen Fakhar (Herndon, Va.), James Michael Tarlecki (Woodbridge, Va.) and Robert Jordan Toth (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for testing a power plant emulation are disclosed. Software for an energy management system is deployed to a computer system comprising computing devices. A model of a power plant site is deployed to a test framework. Test commands and/or use cases are injected, ...