ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,236, issued on July 8, 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.), Christian Chia Wang (Philadelphia), Robert Jordan Toth (Leesburg, Va.) and Andrew Robert Beyer (Aldie, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy management system and methods of using the same are disclosed. The energy management system is configured to distribute power plant tasks. Energy management system tasks are received at the energy management system. At least a portion of the recei...